Artdesign-Krisma

finish?

What have we could have done more: OR Fix for exhibition

Paint - because we only decided to change the idea (paint it) the night before the submission, the spray painting job was rushed so we didn’t have time to polish it.

UV Lighting - I had a suggestion to mount two small spotlight lamps on the side to get more lighting inside, but Krisma didn’t agree on it because she didn’t want to buy more things and wanted to rely on the UV lighting material that Kim provided. The spotlight that Kim provided, I thought it was too bright, and I thought it just didn’t feel right into it. They gave us the spotlight about 2 - or an hour before the deadline, and I was in Kmart ready to buy the small spotlight lamp (I already got one, which I tested mounting it on the sculpture) so I didn’t see the full thing in person, and they said it was fine enough, and trusted them for that statement.

We needed to buy two screw-on UV light bulbs (Kim’s one didnt fit in the spotlight) and just one spotlight since I already got one.

Bigger rings - way too late for bookings. if we decided to only have one row, then we could have made bigger rings.

Secure the stand more - more material and not enough time.

Sound - We were planning to put rice inside the stand and connect a contact mic into the stand, so whenever someone interacts with it, it would make swishing sound, creating a more surreal experience.

Ripple Effect prototype

We placed some pins in just 10 rings to test what it would look like since I wanted to get that fixed pattern in. The pins would lock in the next ring so it would start spinning in a synchronized timing and get a fixed pattern. I was also aiming to get the spiral effect.

8 mm threaded rod from bunnings bent when all the rings where placed, so I went to Steel south (Hayden’s suggestion) and get an 8mm steel rod and ask them to sand it a little bit since it didn't fit, which cost me.

UPDATE::

Week 8

Questions we had to answer and test before going into actual building

How can the layers rotate in different ways (one is clockwise, the other is anti-clockwise)? 

two sticks with teeths (see above photo)

Use of gears

Kim suggested - some kind of feet for the sculpture, similar to Jennifer Townsley

- How will it move/ powered by?

Servo motors - How will we reduce its speed?

Gear worms

Bigger size of gears and gear belts/chains

Manual drive - In this case there's more interaction

- How will it stand? will it be steady and able to carry heavy object?