One of my portraits of truckers on the M1 from the upcoming exhibition ‘the motorway service station as a destination in it’s own right’ at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield (http://bankstreetarts.com/exhibitions/the-motorway-service-station-as-a-destination-in-its-own-right/).
Towards the end of 2012, as part of The Festival of the Mind in Sheffield, Artist Mattias Jones and a small team of technicians, coders and mathematicians developed a drawing system and put it to work. The robots drew one line pattern solutions, the shortest line possible, derived from theories on how bees fly from flower to flower. It ended up covering three walls and the floor of a twenty foot cube in one unbroken line.
Engineering : James Folkes
Coding and prototyping : Tom Whiston
Additional coding : Chris GodleyTechnician : James Griffiths
Contact microphones created by Dave TechDiff
MAX/MSP Code for audio : Tom Whiston + James Griffiths
Prototype traktrix horn soundsystem + engineering : Danger Noise AudioVideo editing : Elliot Holbrow
Photography : Andy Brown + Nathan Gibson
Additional photography : Shaun BloodworthThanks to : Vanessa, Lynette and the amazing Festival of the Mind staff.
SasQwax and Distorted Panda for music and hardware.
The It’s Nice That annual 2012 has just arrived. Very chuffed indeed to have a 3 page spread in it !
Photograph of Private Thomas Wroe, killed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan in a ‘green on blue’ attack on 15th September 2012. The picture hangs in the local cafe of his hometown Meltham, West Yorks.
