Michael Importico – Looking Outwards – Arduino

 

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This work was made my an old professor of mine two years ago.  While it does not use an Arduino, it does use a robot platform. I picked this piece because I always loved the organic nature of the object as well as the museum case presentation.  I also really like the ambiguous nature of the words and phrasings used in this work.

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This installation uses an arduino to control the objects by the movements of the viewers as they move through the art work.  The scale of this work makes it rather impressive.  While the action/interaction is minimal, it does not need to be complex to be a successful art work.  It has a very meditative quality I find very soothing.  Also, I feel the video presentation of this work is a great asset to the piece as a whole.

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I hesitate to call this a work of art, but still, I love it for it’s humor.  This work brings the “physical” to physical computing”.  As best I can tell, the arduino reads a sensor and ascts as a USB keyboard to Windows the infamous ctrl-atl-delete command when it’s necessary.

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