This open workshop is coming to a close and we would like to thank all of the amazing people that have contributed. If you are in town, please consider a Saturday evening reception at Satellite Project Space to celebrate the end of this gosh-darn playful experiment.
The Animated Life of Everyday Objects Closing reception: Sat. Aug 19 at 5 - 7 pm 121 Dundas St.
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We had lots of participants yesterday who created many curious objects, mini robots and light sculptures.
Today is the last day of our project, we are open 12-5pm and will hold a closing reception at 5 pm with homemade food. robot making from Gabriella Solti on Vimeo.
There was lots of fun explorations yesterday with the tiny vibrating motors attached to various objects. The same object can move in different ways if the motor and the small cell battery is attached in various ways to the same objects.
We have red, green, blue, purple, yellow and orange light bulbs to create colour light shadows. The combination of the colour light bulbs (at least two of them) determines what colour shadows will appear on the wall. The shadows of an object can be animated either by moving the object or by keeping the object stationary and moving the light bulbs. Depending on how you move the light bulbs, you can make the shadows elongated, shortened or distorted in many interesting ways.
We have various objects (bubble wrap, fishing net, translucent plastic sheets, solid chains, colour plastic bottles and many more) to explore how they respond to different colour light combinations. The everyday objects on the shelves at Satellite can be explored in many ways, including finding ways to use their forms, material characteristics or functions in an unusual way. A hole in a sponge makes it perfect to be worn as a ring, or a tea strainer can be used to hold jewelry pins.
We had a wonderfully busy day yesterday with many creative explorations by our visitors. A dust factory was created from ballon, transparent tube, and a plastic bottle. A sponge ship was set in motion with a small vibrating motor underneath. Pencil shavings were trembling and circling with a tiny motor hidden from view.
Yesterday at The Animated Life of Everyday Objects, visitors produced a number of new animations out of a CD, balloon, old sign, stones, streamers, glass chess pieces, a tic tac box, mac tac, and more...
Small colour LED lights placed into a white yoghourt container can be used to mix colours. A red LED in one container and a blue LED in another one, produce purple if they are facing each other. But not all LEDs are created equal. Some acts like a flood light; it projects its light in a wide angle and some acts like spot light (like the green in the picture below) and they can't fill the container with light.
We spent the week gathering objects, building furniture in the gallery such as multiple tables and shelves from wood and other materials salvaged from our studios. We tested the colour lighting area too; see the picture of Tegan holding a small black net in front of the colour light bulbs. Here are some pictures of the gallery. All the (still) neatly arranged objects on the shelves are meant to be taken off off the shelves, handled, manipulated, combined, transformed and animated by you. We still have a little bit of work to do today in the gallery to get ready, but we can hardly wait until we open tomorrow, Friday, August 4th at 2 pm. In the next two weeks, we hope to meet lots of Londoners who are curious of how they can animate everyday materials.
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