Motion activated real candle flame with ignition triggered by movement using arduino.
research
Create Simple Motions with Arduino
Sweeping motions:
http://www.dummies.com/computers/arduino/how-to-create-sweeping-movements-with-the-arduino/
Create motions for fans to move around and create wind. In combination with a thermometer. So as temperature rises to a certain point, it will trigger the motion.
Thermometer: https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/TheGadgetBoy/ds18b20-digital-temperature-sensor-and-arduino-9cc806
Materials Presentation and some notes
17th October 2017
Group presentations on Day 3 after Materials Speed Dating, Everything is made of Something Lecture and experiments over the past few days.
Step-by-step guide (See brief for more information)
- Write your material
- Make your material
- Invert your material
- Use your material in any way you wish
Notes from other student presentations:
Lead
- Heavy
- Can act as weights for weighing down props
- sets quickly once melted, therefore difficult to cast into the desired shape
- When heated up the fume is harmful, avoid inhalation
Chlorophyll from spinach
- natural fibre as bi-product, in the form of a wet dough
- natural green pigment
- add white vinegar to allow the dye to stay on fabrics for longer
- watercress stops DNA from degrading when body is in exhaustion
Expanding form
- spray can or two part mixers (the later is less stable)
- average insulation, can fix gaps but not ideal on a larger scale
- used for making theatre props
- instant solution for cracks
- it moulds perfectly onto the shape. ie if applied on a marble surface, it will imitate the quality and form a smooth shinny surface
Loofah Sponge
- Julio tried to use different materials to model the sponge and simulate a similar effect
- materials used include: thread, paper, glue gun
- dries quickly, hardens once dried, soft when in contact with water
- loofah sponge to build houses - is it possible even in humid weather condition?
- try hydrophobic spray on the loofah sponge surface to make it waterproof
*keep away from skin as the spray causes damages to skin
Thermochromic paint
- Naomi has made a test sheet with different sorts of colours and combination of mediums
- Different paint react to different temperature, range between 20-30ºC
- May react on metal (tested on aluminium) and cause irreversible effect, therefore loosing thermochromic property
- Question: How reactive is the paint in terms of temperature? Will change in room temperature change the appearance of the paint, or heat has to be applied almost directly on the surface of the colour? Is it possible to paint a room with thermochromic pigments and see the colour changing as the room temperature rise and fall?
- The fabrics workshop has some thermochromic paint
Newspaper
- look into the ink sources - is it made out of soya beans?
- How sustainable is this?
*UK recycling system is still relying on manual categorizarion
Sand
Some thoughts on my chosen material
- Look up sodium silicate
- water glass
- making jewllery (eg. beads) out of sand, binding them using different glue, resin or other materials
ICOM News on Museums and Intangible Heritage
15 October 2017
ICOM, Newsletter of the International Council of Museum
vol. 57
2004> no.4
Available as digital copy on ICOM website or from Goldsmiths library Q069.5MUS
O Young Lee, Former Minister of Culture, government of Korea, Honorary Professor, Ewha Womans University, Rep. of Korea
This specific issue talked about intangible culture and how human has only started to raise awareness about protecting it a decade ago. Lots of information has been lost and forgotten. Museum only holds physical objects and it was compared to the process of painting a piece of artwork and the final finished piece. Museums may have a hold of some of the completed masterpieces, but often the process of making them, the notion, was lost.
O Young Lee mentioned in his article about Kyopan, a japanese printing company which "replicated cultural assets in digital form but not through a 3D camera." (Page 6) and the result was realistic but still different from the real thing. Note this publication was printed 13 years ago, so technology must have evolved and advanced since then. I had a browse through the internet but have been unable to locate this company and what exactly it has produced in the past as mentioned by O Young Lee. I'm keen on looking further into this project and finding what are the existing technology available for intangible cultural preservation.
The closest result I found about Kyopan, but no evidence showing correlation between the two: http://www.kyopan3.com/contact/
Some quotes from Lee's writing:
“In Africa they say that when an old man dies, a museum disappears with him. The elders are living museums. However...we do not consider them to be cultural assets.
People are now so used to the exhibitions put on by museums that they are more interested in the objects contained in the display cabinets than in the minds of the people who created the objects.
The museum now functions as an oxygen mask for local cultures which are slowly suffocating to death. ”
Some facts from the article:
- 1970s UNESCO started to list historical monuments and sites around the world and preserve them
- 1990s UNESCO started to take an interest in intangible cultural assets, initial in the form of a recommendation
- 1993 at the 142nd Executive Board of UNESCO, the Living Human Treasures systems of Korea attracted attention and member countries were recommended to adopt a similar system
- 1998 at the 155th Executive Board of UNESCO, the first "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" were adopted.
- October 2002 in Shanghai, ICOMASPAC (Asia Pacific) discussed intangible heritage and globalisation. The "Shanghai Charter", a guideline for museums, extended ways of preserving intangible cultural assets.
Museums act as a vessel to preserve and exhibit. However, when tangible objects and cultural properties were added to the collection, they were taken out of its "historical contacts" and "original birthplace", which puts an end to their "further evolution". This diminished the possibility and opportunities for them to interact with living people.
Maybe there's a way to update the existing museum standards, what if visitors get to interact with ALL of the objects being exhibited behind the glass? What if each of them holds a story behind? Can museums become libraries but instead of books, visitors can borrow physical objects and interact with them in a Dimensional way? Learning from touching, smelling, responding instead of pure reading?
TARGET LIST
1. IDENTIFY ONE PERSON
Vivian Song - A moving village during Beijing Design Week 2017
Wholis Design Fest
Have a conversation with Vivian about what she did at the design week, why she did it and how she did it.
"59 days experiment of literally building up a pop up village"
Photo published and belongs to Vivian Song, taken by 安林.
(For research purpose only, I do not own or have the right to distribute the contents. Not for public use.)
“A pop-up community is being tested and built by visitors. The whole program will serve as an academy of social design and innovation.”
Link: https://news.cgtn.com/news/7855544d78597a6333566d54/share_p.html?from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0
2. IDENTIFY ONE PLACE, SPACE OR SITE
Intelligentsia Gallery by Cruz Garcia Frankowski
Live At Project
Image from Intelligentsia Gallery
“Live At is not a regular exhibition. It is a group project. In Live At to solely show is not the goal. The exhibition will take different forms in order to construct new conditions. Live At aims at exploring the relationship between art and social reality, art and space, art and the audience, art and the commonplace.
Guest curated by Xia Yanguo, the exhibition invites more than thirty international artists to create 24-hour shows. Live At is not a simple objectification of art. Live At aims at engaging with the public establishing new relationships between the artist and the audience. ”
Link: http://intelligentsiagallery.com/Live-At
The space is so tiny, tucked away in a hutong next to a stinky public toilet. But the experience was so real. A flow of works and new ideas being continuously carried out, being created, finished, critiqued, reflected and reviewed. Inclusively engaging viewers and makers to generate conversations between each other.
3. IDENTIFY ONE SUBSTANCE OR MATERIAL
Sand. Sand has the solid quality but at the same time contains fluidity within. It can be sculpted and re-sculpted into new things.
Mirage in dessert. Watch Geralds Game by Steven King.
Is it psychological or is it illusion?
4. IDENTIFY ONE OBJECT OR ARTEFACT
Jiao Zi. Tool for transportation before horses and cars. Modern day transportation has four wheels on each side of the vehicle replacing four labour forces.
5. IDENTIFY ONE PRIMARY INSPIRATIONAL TEXT
Lost Horizon (1937)
Image Source: http://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/lost-horizon-1937.html
Link to the idea of a momentary presentation or imagery, something that when you return it might or might not be there anymore.
- Intangible culture, how to preserve it, traditions, things that can't be obtained as an object in a museum collection.
- Illusion of photographs
- bermuda triangle
Museums, Collecting Idas and Objects
Date Created: 21 August 2017
Design Museum
A collection of objects throughout the history which shows how civilization has progressed through tools and how it has reflected back on the tools being invented.
V&A
A traditional institution with an extensive collection of object from day to day items to weapons and helmets. Re-projecting life through the timeline of each cultural background.
The Louvre
Grand collection of objects with a luxurious backdrop. A landmark for Paris, France.
Natural History Museum
To be continued.
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Date Created: 19 August 2017
The topic has been on my mind for quite a few months now. Travelling to one place, thinking about how it looked like back in the days, what was it like then, the people, the custom, the language, the look, how has time worn off these places and helped to shape whatever it is left today, now, at the present moment. Can we do something to preserve the memory, or find back what has been lost? is there a way to replicate the scene and bring it back to life?
Past, present and future. These three points surround our days and nights. Only that future becomes present and fades away with the past eventually.