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<p><img src="moth.jpg" width="400" height="300"></p>
<p><img src="/html/newworkstills/motherboard.jpg" width="400" height="300"></p>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>motherboard</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2005</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">in progress</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This project is still in progress, but to be finished in around March 2005.
Motherboard consists of a rather large ball of yarn, the strands scavenged ,wrapped & wound over a period of four years, the first four years of my son's life. The ball is envelloped in a web, a protective net and is tethered to the wall. Embedded in the ball is an accelerometer. The accelerometer sends data about the speed & axis of the yarn ball during interaction, to a microcontroller (Basic stamp II) about direction & velocity of the ball. The data is the manipulated in Max/Msp. When someone interacts with the ball, their interactions affect the flight (video) of a common clothes moth and renders the video interactive.
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The common clothes moth is fluttering. One might consider it to be the antagonist of the wool sweater, a threat to the convention of comfort
and warmth to human. It slowly eats little holes into garments, metastasizing
them into less remnants of what they were and are perceived to be decaying -
but the common moth participates in an ancient symbiotic
relationship with wool. Wool is it's food, it's nourishment. It is what some varieties (Tinea
pellionella) make into it's casings to keep warm and to transform from the larval stage to the flying moth.
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The ball of yarn, is tethered & anchored as to allow some movement, some rolling but the movement
is restricted, the ball cannot be removed, nor roll away, it is controlled by people who participate with it (or become the facilitators of the system).
The moth being projected, is a series of many static/still images, manipulated
frame by frame to allow for a fluttering of movements and states of the moth. it is not actual moth footage,
it is a construction of a series of images fabricated from one original still image, to give the impression that the moth is fluttering.The clothes moth video is comprised of hundreds of still images manipulated by hand to construct a moth's narrative flight.
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Upon stillness, non movement of the yarnball, the moth rests, and flutters peridically.
Once there is engagement with the ball of yarn, the manner in which
the ball is moved, quickly or slowly, how gentle or violent the ball is
manipulated, affects the behaviours & manner in which the moth flies, and flutters around.
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This project was funded through grants by the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council </p>
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