Illusion of the digital


2017
Installation
Acrylic Glass, Phosphorecent Paint, UV LED, Light Sensor, Speaker, Motor

Illusion of the digital

In Collaboration with Piet Schmidt.

The rotating, phosphorescent plate is charged with a UV LED via a button. The light is then converted into sound by a photo resistor on the opposite side. Inspired by Claus Pias‘ „Analog, digital, and the cybernetic illusion“ the object makes the illusion of the digital visible: The light memory shows how digital information, buttons pressed or not pressed, exists in a system that is under the influence of the laws of nature, thereby e.g. blurred edges and fading of the trace of light, actually analog.

Digitality is a mental model in which naturally occurring intermediate states are ignored. Everything digital actually takes place in analog, continuous systems.

developed in the Seminar MACHINIC DIFFRACTIONS: EXPERIMENTS IN ART, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY at UdK Berlin | Supervisor:
Luiz Zanotello

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