Pinnannousu Robota Glaciskulptura Prezentado by Jussi Angesleva

Pinnannousu Robota Glaciskulptura Prezentado by Jussi Angesleva is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Ora A' Design Award in Dezajno de Instalaĵoj Competition Category.

OroInstalaĵo· 2024

Pinnannousu Robota Glaciskulptura Prezentado

by Jussi Angesleva

Ora A' Design Award Winner in Instalaĵo Category

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The Design

About Pinnannousu Robota Glaciskulptura Prezentado

Malrapide fandanta skulptaĵa prezentado, kie industria roboto skulptas grandan glaciblokon al komputila lenso kiu refraktas la reflektorlumon al grafikaĵoj sur la muro, literumante plus du gradojn Celsio, minacan averton pri tutmonda temperaturkresko. La artverko kunmetas la altteknikan optimismon kun pasemaj tutmondaj defioj kiuj ne konas limojn. La interveno nur akceligas la procezon.

The Recognition

About the Ora A' Design Award

Pinnannousu Robota Glaciskulptura Prezentado estas gajninto de la Ora A' Design Award, treege prestiĝa rekono donata al unuaklasaj, mirindaj kaj elstaraj dezajnoj. La Oraj gajnintoj estas treege novigaj, viziecaj kaj glamure miregigaj kreaĵoj, kiuj reflektas la talenton, saĝon kaj lertecon de siaj dezajnistoj. Oni atendas, ke Pinnannousu Robota Glaciskulptura Prezentado estu tre laŭdata, tendencdifina kaj monumenta inventaĵo, kiu liveras senprecedencan valoron. Ĉi tiu dezajno gajninta la Oran A' Design Award estas spektakla, estimata projekto, kiu tre profitigas kaj antaŭenigas la limojn de arto, scienco, dezajno kaj teknologio. Pinnannousu Robota Glaciskulptura Prezentado kreas intensajn dezirsentojn, vekas pasion, kuraĝigas kreemon kaj fascinas nin.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: A slowly melting sculpture performance, where an industrial robot carves a large ice block to a computational lens that refracts spotlight to graphics on the wall, spelling “+2℃”, an ominous warning of global temperature rise. The artwork juxtaposes the high tech optimism with transient global challenges that know no bounds. The intervention only speeds up the process.
Dimensions & Packaging: Universal Robots UR5 robotic arm
High power LED flashlights
100 x 50 x 25 cm clear ice blocks.
Raspberry pi 5 timelapse capture and projection display.
Tags: performance, computational design, robotics, new media, caustics, sculpture
Production Technology: An industrial robot equipped with a drill and a flashlight alternates between carving the ice block and illuminating it from different angles. The target geometry for the CNC milling is design algorithmically so that when the spotlight is placed on a specific location, the ice refracts lightrays to a predefined caustic image: “+2℃” on the wall. A timelapse camera records the few weeks of melting, and the slowly unfolding morph.
Design Challenge: Where the artwork was inherently a physical and material process, the team was distributed across the world. Working virtually with experimental physical research posed a major challenge. Also, when the work was unfolding, capturing it on film was also a challenge: every moment was unique, and there was no way of replaying anything due to the living material.
Research: Where the intent of the artwork was to leverage the innate qualities of melting ice as the messenger, it was challenging to find a balance between the "idealised" use of technology with this amorphous material. The computational design of the lens geometry expects perfect planar surfaces, but melting ice is never planar, and the carved surface keeps changing. Loosing control, and embracing the accidental lead to the elegant result.
Inspiration: I use advanced technologies to design bespoke experiences, in this case industrial robot and computational design. The aesthetics and the urgent metaphorical meaning of melting ice embodies the qualities I wanted to communicate with the work. I try to celebrate the beauty of nature, but also the human ingenuity in art that makes people think. The spectacular high tech performance, and the resulting melting sculpture should stop us to think where we stand together in facing the near future.
Project Duration: The project was developed and exhibited at Sapporo International Art Festival between January 20 and February 11 in the Snow Storage of the Glass Pyramid at Moerenuma Park, Sapporo, Japan.
Operation Flow: The artwork unfolds in two stages: First, a robotic performance carves the block of ice, occasionally illuminating the block from different angles with the flashlight. After completion, the block slowly melts, and is captured with a timelapse camera.
Patents: Computational Caustics: Rayform & EPFL Geometric Computing Laboratory
Robotics: AATB
Technical Planning: Arsaffix
Supported by: Sapporo International Art Festival 2024
Research support: Part of the research Project “A Third Hand – Creative Applications for Robotics”, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland
Funding Support: ProHelvetia
Ice Field recording: Jonna Jinton
Image Credits: IMAGE CREDITS:
Image #1: ©Sapporo International Art Festival 2024, Photo by KUSUMI Erika
Image #2: ©Sapporo International Art Festival 2024, Photo by KUSUMI Erika
Image #3: ©Sapporo International Art Festival 2024, Photo by KUSUMI Erika
Image #4: ©Sapporo International Art Festival 2024, Photo by KUSUMI Erika
Image #5: ©Sapporo International Art Festival 2024, Photo by KUSUMI Erika
Video Credits: ©Sapporo International Art Festival 2024,

PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS:
Computational Caustics: Rayform & EPFL Geometric Computing Laboratory
Robotics: AATB
Technical Planning: Arsaffix
Supported by: Sapporo International Art Festival 2024
Research support: Part of the research Project “A Third Hand – Creative Applications for Robotics”, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland
Funding Support: ProHelvetia
Ice Field recording: Jonna Jinton