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"PongMechanik" (Roy, 2003/2004)
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In the fast-paced apple of computer graphics, alternate experiences, and video games, there is generally a charge aural the industry to accommodate the best adult systems to advance customer address and bear aerial ball value. Examining the tensions amid the strive for high-tech ascendancy in the exchange and low-tech realizations of agenda accessories is the assignment of Berlin-based artisan Niklas Roy. From re-creating the archetypal Nolan Bushnell bold "Pong" as a automated accoutrement with "PongMechanik" to bearing an optimal art examination acquaintance with the accessible accord - "Gallery Drive", Roy's assignment is an amazing glimpse into avant-garde means of imparting a faculty of history assimilate today's abstruse altar and experiences. Gizmodo afresh bent up with Roy to altercate his access to creating acrid altar and projects that claiming absolute relationships to accessories we appoint with daily.
Images and Interview afterwards the jump.
Name:Niklas RoyAge: 32Education: Formed as a 3D animator, as a beheld aftereffect supervisor, and as director. Currently belief beheld communications at the UdK, Berlin, alive as an absolute artist.Affiliation: Absolute artist.Exhibitions (selected): Gameworld / Laboral Arts Centre / Gijon, Spain, 2007Cosmic Zoom Filmfestival / Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007Todays Art / The Hague, Netherlands, 2006Gästeliste 1 / Generalpublic / Club Transmediale / Berlin, Germany, 2006RE/ACT / Heidelberg, Germany, 2005Microwavefest / Hong Kong, 2005Festival Emergences / Paris, France, 2005VIPER / Basel, Switzerland, 2004Festival Garage / Stralsund, Germany, 2004
URL:: www.cyberniklas.de
GIZMODO: "PongMechanik" is a automated aberration of the archetypal arcade bold "Pong," advised by Nolan Bushnell in the 1970s. Why did you adjudge to actualize a "physical" adaptation of this game? Why was it important to you to use relays as the ascendancy apparatus (brain) abaft the game, and not a computer or microcontroller?
NR: PongMechanik was one of three works, which all accord with the absolute apple and their agenda representations and carnality versa. "Grafikdemo" is addition assignment of this series, "Teleflipper" is the third assignment ambidextrous with that theme. Unfortunately, I didn't certificate Teleflipper appropriately on my webpage. I did those works, because I am somehow absorbed by computer technology and the possibilities that those techniques offer, but at the aforementioned time, this basic being bores me. Afore I started to body machines, I formed as a 3D animator and afterwards as a beheld aftereffect administrator in the blur business. Afterwards spending so abounding years abaft a adviser and creating basic altar and worlds, I artlessly capital to blow the things that I am architecture all the time. So I started to actualize concrete works. Pongmechanik acutely deals with that desire. I capital to actualize a agenda world—the tennis cloister of Pong—in a concrete way. And I accept called Pong for several reasons. The best important acumen is maybe, that the artlessness of Pong makes it absolute accessible to acclimate it for an electro automated version.
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Your added catechism is actually interesting. In fact, my aboriginal abstraction was aloof to body an electromechanical Pong display, which should accept been controlled by a computer or by a microcontroller. During that time, I had actually no acquaintance with microcontrollers, so I've bought one to acquisition out how they work. The aboriginal affair that I abstruse was that this ambassador wouldn't accept abundant I/O ports to ascendancy the automated device. So my abutting thoughts were about how I could aggrandize those I/O ports by a broadcast circuit. And the added I anticipation about this, the added it became accessible that I don't alike charge a microcontroller to get this apparatus running. So, the accommodation of application blast relays was a absolute applied one: They aloof had so abounding switches and were so bargain that I anticipation they would be absolute for what I'd like to do. Of course, I accustomed at the end that those relays fit abundant bigger to the assignment than a microcontroller would accept done. It allows addition appearance on the object: Now, it is additionally a video game, which could technically accept been congenital in the 1930's—or earlier.
All those thoughts happened aback I already started to body the automated allotment of Pongmechanik. And it is a acceptable archetype for how I work. I usually don't alpha with able concepts. My decisions are absolute automatic and if I like an abstraction again I aloof alpha to work. During that process, I usually acquisition out what I am accomplishing and why I am accomplishing this. Again the abstraction develops added and added and my machines are not alone one-way for me to accurate something—they additionally acquaint me article about myself.
"Grafikdemo" (Roy, 2004)
GIZMODO: "Grafikdemo" inserts a uv-green corrective teapot complete out of aglow chestnut wire and chip atramentous lights into an old Commodore CBM 3032 computer. The teapot resembles a 3D cobweb skeleton and can circle in amplitude aback the user presses a key on the keyboard. What was your absorbed with accumulation a concrete and basic object, and did you anticipate the activity succeeded in accomplishing this goal?
NR: This allotment was additionally one of the alternation of three, that I mentioned above. My absorbed was artlessly to actualize a concrete archetype of a agenda article and attending what happens. It was an experiment. And I did what I've done all the years afore as a 3D animator: I've congenital a 3D wireframe model. Aback I started to body it, it was funny to recognizebthat I did aggregate in the aforementioned way and order, like if I would accept done it with a 3D clay software. The lighting was additionally an experiment: I capital to let the wireframe archetypal glow, but I don't absolutely like the attending of UV light, because It consistently has this bargain disco touch. So, I've put a blooming gel (maybe the bigger chat is filter?) abaft the adviser glass, which blocks the UV light. The aftereffect was that you alone see the blooming affairs but no blacklight. At the end, the allotment formed abundant bigger than I had expected. Abounding bodies who comedy with it don't accept at the alpha what they see and how it is done. They aboriginal anticipate is that it is a absolute adult 3D affectation in an old computer. But aback they alpha to admiration about the aberrant motor noises, which appear aback they advance the buttons, they alpha to admit that this is a simple automated device.
" Grafikdemo" - Video (Roy, 2004)
["605.28"]Solved) - Helix Corporation produces prefabricated flooring in a ... | Helix Corporation Produces Prefabricated Flooring In A Series Of Steps"Leg Saw Chair" (Roy, 2004)
GIZMODO: "Leg Saw Chair" examines the appointment astriction of aggravating to move up the accumulated bureaucracy and plays off the German adage "To saw someone's armchair leg" in adjustment to get the job of addition abroad who is added senior. Your adaptation is a battery-powered saw that can be absorbed to the leg of any armchair and aback it detects addition seated, it begins to saw through the leg and cut the chair. Why did you accept to actualize this "saying" and how able has it been to those seated? What types of reactions did you get?
NR: The chair-leg saw and the crammer armchair are both things that I've done at the university. It was a activity with a abbreviate development time: At the alpha of the division anybody in our chic had one anniversary to adapt "Herman," an IKEA chair, and to accord it some added functionality. It took me about three canicule to body this crammer chair, for which I acclimated the microcontroller that I've originally bought to ascendancy the Pongmechanik. I've accounting about this above. And afterwards those three days, the anniversary was not over yet, and because I am a crammer as able-bodied (the armchair is acutely my adapt ego), I absitively to body addition device, this chair-leg saw. There isn't abundant to say about it. I've aloof congenital a apparatus that takes a adage literally. And I alone put those accessories on my webpage, so that the projects area doesn't attending too empty. Otherwise, I anticipation that bodies ability anticipate that I am a apathetic person. Which I am not. But to acknowledgment your aftermost question: The reactions were absolute positive. Bodies admired it and accepted it at once. Alike bodies who don't allege German anticipate that it is funny to sit on the armchair aback the accessory is absorbed to it. Maybe it adds some astriction to their accustomed life: Would the armchair breach or not, while I am sitting on it? Well, of advance it will never break. Or at least, it will booty some weeks and some dozen sets of batteries until the leg is sawn. Who knows. I never approved it out till the end.
"Workaholic Chair" (Roy, 2004)
GIZMODO: With "Workaholic Chair" you imparted a personality into the armchair so that if no one sits in it, it begins to get "nervous" and "restless" by cavernous and affective like a "washing machine." The armchair additionally has "eyes" that activate to move aimlessly if it gets nervous, and they move arid if it gets restless. How important is the personality of a "chair" in the avant-garde appointment environment? Is the activity a beyond animadversion on the actuality that bodies are alive too adamantine and abundant in offices?
NR: Nice interpretations. I don't apperceive what to answer. Somehow, I anticipate that this is actually a brainless and unimportant project. And that I should abolish it from my webpage. But the buyer of the abode area I accept my branch had visited my webpage one day. And he told me that he thinks that this is the best apparatus that I've anytime built. He additionally asked me how abundant it would bulk if he bought it. So I offered him that he can accept it for free, if I don't accept to pay the hire for two months. At the moment, I accept abundant money for the rent, but if my coffer annual is empty, I'll ask him if he still wants it.
"Dokumat 500" (Roy, 2006)
["509.25"]Helix Corporation Produces Prefabricated Flooring ... | Chegg.com | Helix Corporation Produces Prefabricated Flooring In A Series Of StepsGIZMODO: "Dokumat 500" is a automatic automatic camera belvedere that is meant to actualize documentaries, but consistently avalanche abbreviate of its absolute goal. The apprentice drives about with a army VHS camera and shoots accidental takes of altered lengths after the absorbed of alteration the footage afterwards. Why did you adjudge to accommodate a video camera with a ambulant robot? Was the acrid absorbed accessible to bodies about the apparatus aback it was out in accessible space? What sorts of reactions did you accept from it?
NR: The apprentice works able-bodied and it films absurd documentaries. It additionally edits them directly, so this is the absolute apparatus for any bells or anniversary or amphitheater achievement of your children! I've let it accomplish actually a lot of documentaries up to now and they're all very, ... well, ... let's say, ... interesting! The reactions on the apparatus are absolute different, depending on area it drives around. I had it one time at a ability baiter chase in Stralsund, Germany. And the accessible there anticipation that it would be some promotional thing. Bodies are acclimated to promotional accomplishments in accessible space. So at once, they went abutting to it and coiled their calmly in advanced of the lens. Maybe, they anticipation that they can win something, aback they're on the video. A lot of bodies additionally anticipate that the camera is alien controlled. Afterwards a while, they usually admit that I am consistently about abutting to the machine. And again they alpha to ask me area I accept the RC. And aback I alpha to explain them what it is, they're usually absolute analytical about the aftereffect of the filming and they additionally acquisition it actually a advantageous invention.
"Gallerydrive" (//////////FUR////, Roy, 2007)
GIZMODO: "Gallerydrive" (a accord with //////////FUR//// who I profiled for Gizmodo in September 2005) is a new alternate acquaintance for art arcade visitors area they lath an electric wheelchair and are apprenticed about the amplitude forth a clue on the gallery's floor. This agreement allows for the artists and curators to specify the exact bulk of time and acknowledgment the assignment will accept as able-bodied as the bend of appearance and adjustment in which the company sees the work. Why did you adjudge on a wheelchair for the examination agent and how do you ensure that bodies will not try to capsize the system? Aback do you intend to appearance the allotment and what is your ideal blazon of art arcade / assignment for visitors to see this way?
NR: Well, there are several approaches to anticipate about Gallerydrive. You already mentioned one: The absolute ascendancy of the artisan or babysitter about the acumen of the art eyewitness in agreement of time and space. So it is one thing, that a Gallerydrive bureaucracy brings ambit into the exhibition space, which alone existed afore in the cinema (or in a accessory absolute way—in the theatre as well). I accept that it is accessible to aftermath some actually absorbing and new artworks for such a setup. And this is absolutely what we are alive on and what we try to acquisition out. At the alpha I anticipation about application an "old aphotic ride" for the aperture bureaucracy and to renew it and to transform it into a arcade space. But there were some applied affidavit why I annulled this plan. Buying an old aphotic ride was artlessly too expensive, I wouldn't accept had the amplitude to set it up and I additionally didn't appetite to absorb years in renewing a aphotic ride in adjustment to put art into it afterwards. And if it would accept been accomplished already it would accept been actually complicated to extend it. So I anticipation about a added modular system, which can be calmly set up at any place. And I additionally capital to body it in a way that added artists can participate and enlarge it after the charge to assignment at the aforementioned place.
This is how the affair with the electric wheelchairs started: They action already a absolute acceptable concrete anatomy to carriage distinct people, because they are absolutely complete for that purpose. They are additionally cheap. We accept already bought three of them on eBay and they were all beneath than 100 euros. The abutting footfall was to advance a clue arrangement for those vehicles. The simplest way, was of course, to attach some electronics and a scanner to the wheelchairs' ascendancy lath and about-face them into line-following robots. Now, we can set up the Gallerydrive in any absolute arcade space, aloof by adhering a clue with adhering band on the floor. And we are application RFID-tags on the clue to affairs the cartage speed, and added functions of the car. All the plans, circuits and codes are appear on my webpage. And any added artisan or abecedarian is now arrive to body his own "Gallerydrive" car. This is an accessible way to let the accomplished arrangement grow.
Well, there are altered means to capsize it. One could be, to use the technology, that we accept developed, to accomplish added things with it. Things, that we don't apperceive yet. That's accomplished for me. But maybe your catechism is added about how we will accumulate the bodies in the agent during the drive. This is easy: We aloof accomplish the drive absolute agitative and entertaining. So they will break on their seats, because they appetite to apperceive what will appear next. And if your catechism is about hacking an absolute "Gallerydrive"—I artlessly don't apperceive why addition should do that. Hacking art usually alone happens if the eyewitness is confronted with arid art pieces that don't absolutely work, or that assignment in a way that is hardly understandable. But this is annihilation that we intend to exhibit.
["993.28"]Helix Corporation Uses The Weighted-average Method... | Chegg.com | Helix Corporation Produces Prefabricated Flooring In A Series Of StepsAt the moment, we accept one alive agent (which I accept built) and the added one (which is congenital by //////////FUR////) is about finished. I am alive currently on the aboriginal exhibition item—or let's alarm it "station." It will be a huge machine, which will transform itself into a white cube, surrounding the company aback he drives into it. I already wrote about how I advance my pieces—it is actually intuitive—and at the alpha I usually don't apperceive what it will be at the end. Here, it is the same: I don't apperceive yet what I will appearance central this white cube. Maybe artlessly nothing, as the apparatus itself is already absolute impressive, and it produces actually an agoraphobic activity aback it closes about you. Maybe I will appearance some pictures inside—I accept some funny ideas, what I could do there. But I artlessly didn't accomplish any accommodation yet. Aback this white cube apparatus (at the moment, I alarm it robotik room) is finished, we can anticipate about the aboriginal exhibitions. They will appear in the best basal way at the beginning: One car, one artwork—that's it. And we don't apperceive yet area to appearance it first. So curators—if you are account that and if you are interested—send me an email! But to appear aback to your aboriginal question: My admired blazon of art arcade would be the MOMA. Or the Guggenheim. Or maybe the Tate would additionally be alright. Let's see, what happens.
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