Multimedia installation, *The Essence*, Vienna 2009

shown as part of the annual exhibition at the University of Applied Arts

Concept and realisation: Michael Kalivoda, Alfred Lenz, Johann Scholz

The installation consists of 6 identical built objects. Each one features an Arduino board, 2 servo motors and 2 magnetic field sensors. The kinetic energy of the motors produces discontinuous electro magnetic fields, which are registered by the sensors. These captured values serve as control signals for the motors. Therefore each element is a closed system and acts without external influence.
One of the servo motors of each object is connected by a system of strings to another element, though controlling the horizontal position of the object by lifting and lowering. The second motor is also attached to another element controlling the vertical position of the object. A form of physical communication develops itself. The title was generated with speech-to-text software that tracked the sound of the moving servo motors and interpreted it as language. A model of handing human decisions to digital systems.

Multimedia installation, *The Essence*, Vienna 2009

shown as part of the annual exhibition at the University of Applied Arts

Concept and realisation: Michael Kalivoda, Alfred Lenz, Johann Scholz

The installation consists of 6 identical built objects. Each one features an Arduino board, 2 servo motors and 2 magnetic field sensors. The kinetic energy of the motors produces discontinuous electro magnetic fields, which are registered by the sensors. These captured values serve as control signals for the motors. Therefore each element is a closed system and acts without external influence.
One of the servo motors of each object is connected by a system of strings to another element, though controlling the horizontal position of the object by lifting and lowering. The second motor is also attached to another element controlling the vertical position of the object. A form of physical communication develops itself. The title was generated with speech-to-text software that tracked the sound of the moving servo motors and interpreted it as language. A model of handing human decisions to digital systems.