Project +49 157 362 961 96 / 2018
2D plotter, contract microphones, speakers, pen, paper, sms, DIY control box (arduino, mix of program languages). 2017-2018
The Project +49 157 362 961 96 (2017) by Marcelina Wellmer is an interactive installation operating within the complex environment of telematic and mobile communication, on the verge of generative art and e-literature, with some features of a kinetic sound-sculpture. Sending a text message to the provided phone number initiates data processing, while the customised software and plotter hardware turn each SMS into a line of a manuscript. The outcome of the plotter’s movement imitates a human handwriting, although the written contents is neither imitated, nor artificial. It is an upshot of participants’ voluntary contribution. While the collaboratively created text as a whole, is an outcome of a random flow of messages, the process reveals the hidden curriculum of turning a raw thought into a coherent verbal statement. During the writing process, the plotter emits sound, reminding of the computer-mediated communication (CMC) taking place. Operating within the given affordances, it evokes not an artificial, but rather a collective intelligence contributed by both human and software-based actants. Although the idea may seem to reach back to the pioneering experiments in cyberarts, there is a contemporary approach of critical engineering and analysis of a creative process. While it examines the human-computer interactivity (HCI) paradigm, the project is focused on re-inventing rudiments of communication process through reinterpreting technology by questioning its primary characteristics.
*Ewa Wojtowicz, media art researcher and professor at University of Arts in Poznan/Poland
2D plotter, contract microphones, speakers, pen, paper, sms, DIY control box (arduino, mix of program languages). 2017-2018
2D plotter, contract microphones, speakers, pen, paper, sms, DIY control box (arduino, mix of program languages). 2017-2018
Examples of sent and automatically printed messages
Examples of sent and automatically printed messages
2D plotter, contract microphones, speakers, pen, paper, sms, DIY control box (arduino, mix of program languages). 2017-2018