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Pinnannousu Ihe Ngosi Ọkpụkpụ Ice Rọbọtịkị by Jussi Angesleva

Pinnannousu Ihe Ngosi Ọkpụkpụ Ice Rọbọtịkị by Jussi Angesleva is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2024 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaedo in Nhazi Nkwụnye Competition Category.


ỌlaedoNkwụnye· 2024

Pinnannousu Ihe Ngosi Ọkpụkpụ Ice Rọbọtịkị

by Jussi Angesleva

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaedo Winner in Nkwụnye Category

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The Design

About Pinnannousu Ihe Ngosi Ọkpụkpụ Ice Rọbọtịkị

Ihe ngosi ọkpụkpụ na-agbaze nwayọọ nwayọọ, ebe rọbọt ụlọ ọrụ na-akpụ nnukwu ngọngọ ice ka ọ bụrụ lens mgbakọ na mwepụ nke na-atụgharị ọkụ dị ukwuu gaa na eserese dị n'elu mgbidi, na-ede 'pụlọsụ digrii abụọ celsius', bụ ịdọ aka na ntị dị egwu banyere mmụba okpomọkụ ụwa. Ọrụ nka a na-ejikọta olileanya teknụzụ dị elu na nsogbu ụwa nke na-agafe agafe nke na-enweghị oke. Ntinye aka a naanị na-eme ka usoro ahụ dịkwuo ọsọ.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaedo

Pinnannousu Ihe Ngosi Ọkpụkpụ Ice Rọbọtịkị meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaedo, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị dị n'ọkwa mbụ, dị ịtụnanya ma pụtara ìhè. Ndị meriri na Ọlaedo bụ ihe e kere eke dị oke ọhụrụ, nwere ọhụụ ma na-egbu maramara nke na-egosipụta ọgụgụ isi, amamihe na nka nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Pinnannousu Ihe Ngosi Ọkpụkpụ Ice Rọbọtịkị ga-abụ ihe e mepụtara kacha enweta otuto, na-edu ọnọdụ ma bụrụ ihe ncheta nke na-enye uru na-adịbeghị mgbe ọ bụla. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaedo bụ ọrụ dị ebube, a na-asọpụrụ nke na-erite uru buru ibu ma na-ebuga oke nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ n'ihu. Pinnannousu Ihe Ngosi Ọkpụkpụ Ice Rọbọtịkị na-eweta mmetụta ọchịchọ siri ike, na-akpali agụụ, na-akwado nzụlite ihe ma na-adọrọ anyị adọrọ.

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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