Wind Writings
Cereal Boxes, mixed media, microntroller and electronics RI, USA, 2008
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Wind Writings borrows and reinterprets the pinwheel icon.
Pinwheels are an array of colours that are set to spin and mix with the energy of the wind. In this project I attempted to translate the relationship that pinwheels have with the environment and the wind to give them a voice. This voice would vary as the spinning of the pinwheels varied in the wind.
As I created the pinwheels I juxtaposed many elements from popular culture and my day to day. The object of the pinwheel then became akin to a DIY project that could be easily reproduced by anyone who had the available materials. On one hand, the petals of the wheels are made of cereal packages I had consumed throughout the year and kept out of sheer fascination with their colorful palette. On the other hand the voice of the pinwheels is a distorted (at once stretched, at others sped up) reading of an RSS feed from people's magazine.
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++process images of first working prototype {collaboration with Maralie Milholand Armstrong}
++proposal and sketches for final piece
++credits
Final documentation video Elizabeth Skadden
Photography (unless otherwise noted) Da Yan
Photography and video of working prototype Maralie Milholand Armstrong and Mary Choueiter
Technology and software used: Arduino and Processing environments, and the Rita, and Firmata libraries, as well as the JDOM, and ROME libraries for the Read RSS feeds code.
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++images from the final presentation
