Final Project Planning- Entry 2

This week we are putting together the physical apparatus for our project. We were conflicted with whether or not the panel was going to split in the center and clear on two sides or whether or not the entire panel would slide to the left or the right. As time constraints always seen to get in the way, we decided to have the panel slide to the left side and clear in that manner. We always seem to get so caught up in aesthetics, but realistically as an artist, I would rather represent myself through what I know and what I can excel at, rather than try to fit into the parameters of a type of artist that i just can't mimic or feel comfortable mimicking. So the commentary around our piece, we feel, will support it and the lack of intricate physical computing surrounding the project will not effect us as artists. We are attempting to comment on the ever persistent limitations behind the digital image. The idea of an image always eventually pixilating into something undecipherable and therefore the amount of control a user has over the imagery is always limited. Evidently technology always maintains some sense of control.

So, we need to make our frame, and the most important aspect of our project, our pixels. When we initially discussed the project we thought about using plastic. But for us, the sound that the piece made, when the pixels cleared was very important. We were more attractive to the sound that wood made compared to plastic or beads or some other type of material. Also we wanted to maintain the cube motif that we seem to always come back to. 200 cubes will, hang from our panel, each stained with a different shade of brown on the four sides that flip. The difficult part about this is that to have a cube sit still, allowing a user to flip to each side and having it sit without returning to one side only, is that the hole we drill, has to be directly in the center. This will be a very sensative process.

Now, another concern we had was in relation to exactly how we were going to suspend the panel, without havnig to attatch it to the gallery wall. We decided to inset the motor into a white box, that would incase any physical parts included in the peice as well as a number of sand bags in the bottom to secure the entire panel into the ground. Two arms would support the panel on the left and right side and rotate from the centr of the piece.