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Final renders. Thanks!

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Machine Text Redux

The setup involves travelling a 15 foot roll of paper, working against the machine, which drops the spheres but then attempts to scatter them. Different users may find different strategies to leave an identifiable record of their paths.

Steven Kyle Cook

Machine Idea Redux:

Imagine trying to leave a trail of breadcrumbs in snow, howling wind, or with a hungry squirrel following you.

I will make my way through space, trying to create some physical mark of my path. The machine is working against me. It scatters my trace but I am compelled to use it. The machine is antithetical to my goal. The challenge will be to try to use the machine in such a way that I ‘limit the damage’ and leave as much of a [linear] physical record as possible while the machine, by its nature, works to erase it.

My prototype involves reappropriating a popcorn-maker. One tilted end dispenses small ceramic spheres (baking weights), while a hand-crank spins a flexible propeller that scatters the spheres according to the speed of the crank and the orientation of the machine. Perhaps by spinning the propeller slowly I can guide the spheres into a pattern of my path, or by spinning quickly skip over some of them? In any case there will be feedback between the user and machine, whose ‘goals’ oppose one another.

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Machine Text (original)

Through chemical reaction, physical or psychological registration of space occurs and/or spatial perception is altered.

Steven Kyle Cook

“A machine is a tool containing one or more parts to perform an intended action. Machines are usually powered by mechanical, chemical, thermal or electrical means and are often motorized.”

Q: How to tie the molecular machine that is the pill to some machine replicating or interpreting physical bodily movement.

Pills typically dissolve, after being swallowed, in the liver. From there, pills enter the bloodstream. A somewhat crude machine because pills in general do not target specific areas of the body.

Rules:

Lifting pill to mouth.

Swallow.

Physical dissolution of granular pill.

Molecular absorption of pill (typically through liver).

Molecules enter bloodstream.

Molecules reach particular receptors throughout the body.

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