Joseph L. Griffiths
Drawing Machine #1 (To your heart’s content)
Source: josephlgriffiths.com
The drawings above were produced by a drawing machine (a great RISD architecture genre) in construction for the past few days.
The drawing machine consists of four parts:
1.) The launch pad is a level surface five inches above the floor. A 4 - 1/8 inch square is cut in the center, into which is seated the…
2.) The transport assembly consisting of a rubber stopper with a styrene tube piercing vertically through the center. The tube is attached to a length of vinyl tubing which leads to…
3.) A bicycle pump provides the pneumatic pressure required to launch the…
4.) Rocket which is loaded with an amount of charcoal powder.
The charcoal particulate spew from the launch of the pneumatic rocket is registered on the paper.
Source: andrew-liebchen.com
Drawing Machine is an interactive installation made by lab212 exhibited in the french institute of Meknes (Morocco) for the international festival of short animated films.
Alan Storey: Climatic Drawing Machine, 1991.
Model of climatic drawing machine and resulting drawing on rear wall installed in gallery. The direction of the wind rotates the paper recording drum via the weather vane on the roof of the building. The drum is moved up and down according to the velocity of the wind.
Alan Storey
DRAW I, 1984. Or Gallery Vancouver and Mercer Union, Toronto, 1986. Overall view of installed piece. This piece is built on the principle of an articulated arm - though made of heavy timber. 600lb. lead counter-weights are bolted to the end of the swingarm to give you an idea of the massive scale of this work .The motorized assembly rotates at low speed, the articulated arm keeping the inked bicycle wheel in constant contact with the gallery walls. The ‘drawing machine’ marks the wall with every rotation at a pseudo-random height deter-mined by a second motorized movement in the arm.
Rebecca Horn
Les Amants
“My machines are not washing machines or cars. They have a human quality and they must change. They get nervous and must stop sometimes. If a machine stops, it doesn’t mean it’s broken. It’s just tired. The tragic or melancholic aspect of machines is very important to me. I don’t want them to run forever. It’s part of their life that they must stop and faint.”
-Rebecca Horn, “The Bastille Interviews II, Paris 1993”
Tim Hawkinson
Jean Tinguely
Jean Tinguely
