Installation titled: ‘nemore’  by collective Fishing For Compliments

One of the magical aspects to taking an electronics class was learning how to transfer behavioral language into code. To take this installation as an example, the simple gesture of bending a graphite pole with a servomotor that reacts (presumably in response to an IR sensor) to the presence of a person creates the illusion of a greater cognitive response by the installation. 

As of late, I have been struggling between how I feel about art as I am delving more into the design world. This installation reminds of the intersect between both worlds, where artists+collectives are carrying out their practices from interesting and less expected disciplines with interesting application of skills + techniques. (at least compared to the mass association to art as more traditional mediums).

The small gesture this installation encapsulates in the input-response system at play, runs along the same vein of fundamentals that designers in the field of UX and product designers must often consider. 

It is nice to remember what inspired me through my ICAM days and be reminded that even though it is not “art” I am engaging in now, it is part of what I am doing because it is my history that brings me to my interests now.

(Source: designboom.com)