SENSORS AND SENSITIVITY

Start making a sensor, fabric waving with conductive dreath. Waving in this structure makes a honeycomb, it gives hight to the fabric to make a press sensor.

a honycomb it's some natural material make's by nature. The sensor with the conductive thread make's from some humen's artifact.

behavioural stretching

Jeanine and Tharim first experions with franch knitting, Tim what wat minder plazant er mee, because it was his evil eye workshop.

First exampels, a bonsing sensor in ardino and woven threat with conductive threat to ardino

We programmed the arduino so that it translated the serial data to frequencies. For example, when the cord is in resting position the arduino monitor would read 520 and when we pull the string it would read 960. We would map the arduino to output a frequency of 0hz when it reads 520 and 1000hz when it reads 960.

The serial data received from the arduino could be used in many ways. We also experimented with other sounds and samples by connecting the serial port (where the arduino was attached to) to Ableton live. The sensor could trigger all sorts of instruments, effects, and automation. We didn’t use this way of working in the end because you always had to be near a computer to use the sensor.

starting france knitting

For our presentation, we wanted to connect the result of pulling the string to the action that was needed to pull the string. The group of third-year students had made some videos that inspired us. In their video, they exaggerated the movement the body makes while stretching.

It gets interesting when you can make people do stuff without necessary commanding them to. We wanted to make people stretch without them being aware that that was our purpose. To achieve this we placed several chords on different heights in the staircase. By curiosity or simply because they were confronted with a strange object in the -semi-public space people would pull or touch -accidentally- the cord. When noticing there was a sound coming out of it, they would reach higher and higher for the other cords.

You could say that in the end the artifact was not only the cord, but the people stretching to pull the cord.

On numerous occasions, we discussed how we could place this cord in our everyday life. The cord is strange, yet pulling it and hearing the sound feels so familiar and normal at the same time. We wanted to give this cord in some way a place in daily life.

Inspiration for exeqution was the well known movie: The Phantom of Liberty

End Result

behavioural stretching mystery is it nature or reality ? The stretch sensor placed in a human setting where it is normal to do it in your (social) ritual.

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