Pinnannousu Performance de Escultura de Hielo Robótica by Jussi Angesleva is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 A' Design Award de Oro in Diseño de Instalaciones Competition Category.
OroInstalación· 2024
Pinnannousu Performance de Escultura de Hielo Robótica
A' Design Award de Oro Winner in Instalación Category
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About Pinnannousu Performance de Escultura de Hielo Robótica
Un performance de escultura que se derrite lentamente, donde un robot industrial esculpe un gran bloque de hielo hasta crear una lente computacional que refracta la luz del proyector en gráficos sobre la pared, formando las palabras más dos grados celsius, una advertencia ominosa del aumento de la temperatura global. La obra yuxtapone el optimismo de alta tecnología con desafíos globales transitorios que no conocen fronteras. La intervención solo acelera el proceso.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Oro
Pinnannousu Performance de Escultura de Hielo Robótica ha ganado el A' Design Award de Oro, un reconocimiento inmensamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de primera categoría, maravillosos y sobresalientes. Los ganadores de Oro son creaciones sumamente innovadoras, visionarias y glamorosamente deslumbrantes que reflejan el prodigio, la sabiduría y la destreza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Pinnannousu Performance de Escultura de Hielo Robótica sea una invención muy elogiada, pionera y monumental que aporta un valor sin precedentes. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Oro es un proyecto espectacular y respetado que beneficia enormemente y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Pinnannousu Performance de Escultura de Hielo Robótica crea intensos sentimientos de deseo, despierta la pasión, fomenta la creatividad y nos fascina.
Behind the Design
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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
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