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Pinnannousu Wasan Kwaikwayo na Sassaken Kankara ta Robot by Jussi Angesleva

Pinnannousu Wasan Kwaikwayo na Sassaken Kankara ta Robot by Jussi Angesleva is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Zinariya in Shigarwa Competition Category.


ZinariyaShigarwa· 2024

Pinnannousu Wasan Kwaikwayo na Sassaken Kankara ta Robot

by Jussi Angesleva

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Zinariya Winner in Shigarwa Category

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The Design

About Pinnannousu Wasan Kwaikwayo na Sassaken Kankara ta Robot

Wasan kwaikwayo na sassaka mai narkewa a hankali, inda robot na masana'antu ke sassaka babban guntun kankara zuwa ruwan tabarau na ƙididdiga wanda ke karkatar da hasken fitilar haskakawa zuwa zane-zane a bango, yana rubuta ƙari digiri biyu celsius, gargadin haɗari game da hauhawar yanayin zafin duniya. Aikin fasaha ya haɗa kyakkyawan fatan fasahar zamani da ƙalubalen duniya na ɗan lokaci waɗanda ba su da iyaka. Tsoma bakin yana ƙara hanzarta tsarin kawai.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Zinariya

Zanen Pinnannousu Wasan Kwaikwayo na Sassaken Kankara ta Robot ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Zinariya, wata karramawa mai matuƙar daraja da ake bai wa zane-zane na matakin farko, masu ban mamaki kuma na musamman. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Zinariya ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire ne masu sababbin abubuwa sosai, masu hangen nesa kuma masu haske mai ban sha'awa waɗanda ke nuna hazaƙa, hikima da ƙwarewar masu zanensu. Ana sa ran zanen Pinnannousu Wasan Kwaikwayo na Sassaken Kankara ta Robot ya zama ƙirƙira mai yabo sosai, mai kafa yanayi kuma babba wacce ke kawo ƙima da ba a taɓa ganin irinta ba. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Zinariya aiki ne mai ban mamaki, mai daraja wanda ke amfanar fasaha, kimiyya, zane da fasahar zamani sosai kuma yana kai iyakokinsu gaba. Zanen Pinnannousu Wasan Kwaikwayo na Sassaken Kankara ta Robot yana haifar da tsananin sha'awa, yana tada soyayya ga aiki, yana ƙarfafa ƙirƙira kuma yana burge mu.

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

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