Drawing_machine
Woodbury University, SD / Collaborator: Tracy Anderson / Advisor: Bryan Cantley, Cameron Crockett
Design Project, 2006
Woodbury University / San Diego, CA
A design project exploring the relationship between space, art and the responsive environment around it. An interactive, independently moving drawing machine was created to document its movements through art on canvas. This exploration was designed to discover a new understanding of dynamic and progressive space and how interaction can shape our environment. The movements that were recorded onto the canvas were then categorized and reproduced into a timeline map.
The Drawing_Machine is assembled from dismantled parts from a variety of household transportation devices; Including: a motorized wheelchair, a salvaged camshaft, bicycles, sprinkler heads, and random, recycled metal studs and bolts. The machine is powered by a salvaged car battery and uses an electric wheelchair mechanism to open and close an expanding arm. It also powers a main camshaft and small wheelchair pistons to turn multiple gears and chains to rotate and drag attached sharpies to create an unpredictable canvas of continuous circles and lines.
The entire process of deconstructing the salvaged parts and creating the drawing machine took two weeks. It was very well received by professors and other critics in the Art and Architecture communities. The drawing machine was invited to participate in several expositions including: The Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MCASD) TNT show, ‘Where Art + Space Collide,’ and at ‘Inversion,’ exhibited at the Woodbury University Hollywood Campus.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCASD) / TNT; ‘Where Art + Space Collide’
Woodbury University Hollywood Campus / ‘Inversion'
Drawing_machine
Woodbury University, SD / Collaborator: Tracy Anderson / Advisor: Bryan Cantley, Cameron Crockett
