Work in Progress

Closeup from Work In Progress

Automated pen doodles

Alt_Cph Opening and Mikrogalleriet, Copenhagen, Fall 2008
Brunnhofer Galerie, Linz, Fall 2010

Reviving an old Roland plotter, i programmed it to doodle in processing. It took a few months, but it eventually ended up doodling the same way I do myself during long sedentary phone conversations.
It has since been updated to run from an embedded arduino chip.
The complexity of the doodles is higher than i usually do them by hand and look slightly manic.
Before starting up a doodle, the plotter has to be loaded with paper, and the button pressed. The plotter will describe itself, at plot a start price. It doodles until stopped, occasionally raising the price at a rate of 12 € an hour.
When stopped, it signs and numbers the drawing.
The resulting sheet is sold as a unique pen drawing.
The plotter has been doodling away for some time at Halfmachine, and has been exhibited at the Alt_Cph opening, curated by Stine Hebert and Mikrogalleriet.
Thanks to Jacob Sikker Remin from Mikrogalleriet for helping me with the project. Thanks to the guys at Illutron for helping me cram version 2.0 into an arduino. And to Peet from Black Box Gallery, who put it up in Brunnhofer Galerie in Linz parallel to Ars Electronica 2010.

Appearances

12 2011 Multiple Market, Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen
11 2010 Multiple Market, Black Box Gallery at Mikrogalleriet, Copenhagen
11 2010 New Media Days, Carlsberg, Copenhagen
09 2010 Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen at Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz
12 2008 Jul Under Vand 2008, Ørestad City, Copenhagen, Denmark
09 2008 Alt_Cph 2008 / Mikrogalleriet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Requirements

Consumables

Video from Jul Under Vand, Copenhagen, 2008

Video by Ole Kristensen

Photos

some photos from lise and cyf at flickr.com

Links

Mikrogalleriet
Alt_Cph
Brunnhofer Galerie
Black Box Gallery


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  1. Artist talk at Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen « ole kristensen 12.12.11 / 9pm

    [...] will tell about my work with arduino and a plotter, including the artworks that it creates. Also I might give some glimpses into the work with Recoil [...]

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As software artist i create computer programmed interactive art. My work combines installation art, audiovisual set design, modern dance, graphic design and performance art.

Through developing digitally controlled setups – often with firsthand written open source software – one of my main interests lies in participating in new and challenging creative spaces for artistic practices and research, ranging from large-scale media-based installations to theatre and dance productions.

In addition to my auto-didactic approach to knowledge and hands on experience, i hold a bachelor in Interactive Media. I thrive in experimental research environments where there is room for exchanging both crazy, grand or silly ideas. Whether it be with other artists, specialized geeks, academics, the local politician or a passersby.

Keeping curiosity alive is a priority for me. Why’s are complex, and there is enough stuff for the curious in that for at least several thousand eternities. The best school has so far been Christiania, trying to learn why people cluster and act the way they do. To believe that outcomes have reasons that i can never know in their entirety is enough to me. I'd rather wonder if a newborn does not know itself from it's surroundings than put my faith in stories about good vs. evil, a supreme being, the immutable order of things, or fate.

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