The Human and the Machine

Semester 5, autumn 2007


 

A close relationship

Poject description: The aim of this art project is to create a machine which should have a close relationship with user, the human being. Inspired by the work of Calder with his little circus character,I choose to work on the relationship between a human and a bicycle.
And instead of assuming that the motion of the bicycle and its function of transporting depend exclusively on the human action, I introduced a new force, the wind, which puts the bicycle into motion and makes the humnmotion dependent of the bicycle motion.
The human is not the actor anymore but acts as a passive character.

The machine was made of wires, an ebroidery circle, toilet paper rolls, little "Starbucks" sticks, glue and christmas transparent ball.
The project was presented as a movie format to show the mechanism of the machine.