Role
Technical Director, Digital Artist
Client
Gazelli Art House/Ben Tricklebank
Credits
Artist: Ben Tricklebank
Technical Assistance: Ranjit Bhatnagar
Tech
12x Adafruit 16-Channel PWM / Servo HAT for Raspberry Pi - Mini Kit
24x ULN2803 8 Channel Darlington Driver (Solenoid/Unipolar Stepper)
192x Mini Submersible DC Motor Pump 3V 120L/H Low Noise Max Lift
Lots of 2.1mm pigtails
1 Mac Mini
1 Kinect v2 camera
1 Panasonic PT-EX610 projector
1 router/switch setup
custom c++/openFrameworks app (runs on Mac Mini) - analyze depth data from Kinect, generate projected imagery, send OSC to Raspberry Pis to control pumps
custom python script (runs on all 4 Raspberry Pis) - accepts OSC messages from Mac Mini, uses that data to control pumps via motor hats
Links
“Control Is an Illusion” New Work from Ben Tricklebank at Gazelli Art House
Exhibition listing
May 2016
Endec is a site-specific installation and photographic series which explores notions of control and freedom through our relationship with technology. The reflection pool is set within the gallery’s ground floor, themes of reaction and distortion are addressed through the audience’s interaction with a bright, white pool. Filled with opaque milky substance, the pool serves as a liquid canvas, which both responds to and is manipulated by the viewer. Using a combination of projection and sensors that analyze motion, the piece is activated by the audience’s varying levels of action and inaction. The ripples intensify as the viewer nears the installation simultaneously repelling points of light to reveal a silhouette below this viscous plane. Creating a visual interplay between surface and motion, intimate moments of reflection and influence are realized through the undulating patterns in this innately infinite and abstract canvas.