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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

09 2008 Alt_Cph 2008 / Mikrogalleriet, Copenhagen, Denmark
12 2008 Jul Under Vand 2008, Ørestad City, Copenhagen, Denmark
09 2010 Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen at Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz

Requirements

  • 3 square meters floor space
  • Power

Consumables

  • Acid free paper (A3)
  • Roland compatible plotter pens, 0.7 mm coloured and 0.3 mm black.

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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i work creatively with computers, art, theatre and performance.

in school i was curious enough to know the answers before the questions came before me in print. in university i was curious enough to question the answers print produced. both to my own peril.

the best school so has so far been christiania, since i am far to interested in politics, and try to learn why people cluster and act the way they do. hopefully shortterm powermongers are mistaken in the long run.

i enjoy mysteries, the only mystery greater than love, women and myself is the product thereof. there is no such thing as the eyes of a being which has not yet learned the difference between subject and object. i somehow relate to that. call it childish if you want.

there are plenty of borders to cross, even in the wake of globalisation. i have become aware that i am part of a travelling class, by meeting some of the people who aren’t. hopefully this can change.

keeping curiosity alive is my number one priority. the biggest source of pain is when i fail to grasp why stupidity arises. even when i don’t i always think there’s a why. why’s are complex, and there’s enough stuff for the curious in that for at least several eternities. believing outcomes have reasons that i can never know in their entirety is a substitute for faith in good vs. evil, a supreme being, the immutable order of things, or fate.

and hopefully i can still learn.

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