Presentation of the workshop "the absurd machine of the possible impossible" held by minipimer.tv in liwoli (linz)

1. The Absurd
Machine of
the Possible
Impossible
Minipimer.tv (an open
source
presents.... process)
Social
hardware &
poetry of
software

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8
SOMETHING ABOUT THE MACHINE
this machine is a pretext, an excuse. it's a tool to discuss matters, a meta-thought
device, a (self-)learning process, a social technology that works like a warehouse
of errors and frustrations.
the machine is an open process of construction, deconstruction and mutation. this
machine wants to be a method, a manifesto, a machine. it refuses to be an art work
and because of this it will never be complete. The final result is a weird-looking
thing (an "esperpento").
The machine is a reflexion about the dynamics of collective creation, about the
possible (and impossible) displacement of the notion of code

4. The Absurd Machine
of the Possible
Impossible
beeing a process, the machine has had various
versions:
1) V0.1 "the black box"
Reflections about:
- criticism and visibilization of the absurdity of human-
machine interaction
- technologies in our lives
- opaque VS transparent technologies
- physical and social body fragmentation carried out by
the technology

6. 2) V0.1.5
(ABORTED
VERSION)
"goddess
machine"
- machine as oracle
- faith in technology
- interaction as a ritual

7. 3) V0.2 "looking for rizoma (and its
failure)"
Reflections about:
- collective technologies, collective creation, collective
processes
- processes of interchange
- relation between freedom, rules and goals in collective
creation
- expanded notion of the concept of technology

8. HOW DOES IT WORK?
THE SYSTEM (the input)
tools: arduino, processing
materials: whatever (recycled)

9. HOW DOES IT WORK?...the ouput
Get inspired.... The postmodernism generador
The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator
Art critique generator
Como falar bonito sem dizer nada

10. Model for Optimizing Randomness: Mozart's musical dice game
..being a composer without knowing the rules
From being a composer without knowing the rules...
To being an oracle without knowing the ??????

11. DEMO

12. WORKING TOGETHER..
What are we going to do?
1. Building the discourse of the machine (collaborative experimental writing)
2. Building the input modules (eletronics and arduino)
3. Customize the modules (crafty things)
4. Put everything together (processing and being patient)
5. Arrange the exhibition space
6. If { we can drink a beer after that}
Then {we will become superheroes}
Or else {we will die}

13. WORKING TOGETHER..
How we planned to work?
We had designed a work
methodologies with decision
nodes....
....BUT
-----TIME IS AGAINST US-----

15. Building the discourse of the machine
(collaborative experimental writing)
where?
http://piratepad.net/Vt8KlirGIr

16. Structure: IF { [N1] [2.1] [3] }
THEN { [N2] [2.2] [4] }
ELSE { [N3] [2.2] [5]}
1 2.1 2.2 3 4 5
noun action action place adverb why?
condition result
A Napoleon runs away eats an in the quitely because
apple wardrobe
its funny
B Your falls in love will die in the slowly without an
grandmother kitchen
explanatio
n
C This flies to will behind fast because
computer the moon explod this it's
e screen sunday

17. Linguistic structure: Conditional - IF Statement

18. Some necessary rules
1. NOUN = who? / what?
- must be 3rd person
2.1. Action - condition. What does he/she/it do?
- must be 3rd person
- must be present simple
- intransitive / transitive+direct object: runs / eats an apple
2.2 Action - result. What does he/she/it do?
- must be 3rd person
- must be present simple OR future simple.
- intransitive / transitive+direct object: runs / eats an apple
3. Place. Where?
4. Adverb. In what way? / how?
5. Reason. Why?

19. Building the modules
1ª part: arduino and circuits

20. Some useful links:
-more info about sensors: http://www.sensorwiki.org/doku.php
-getting start with arduino: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
- resistors:
http://www.fortunecity.es/felices/barcelona/146/3ds/tutores/
calculograficoresitivo_files/calculograficoresitivo.htm
- circuits simulator: http://www.falstad.com/circuit/

21. Digital input, not continuous
1: button
• momentary
button
• 10K ohm
resistor
• LED
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Button • hook-up wire

22. Analog input, continuous
1.LDR - Light dependent resistor
• Arduino Board
• LDR
• 1K Ohm
resistor
http://arduino.cc/es_old/Processing/SensorDeLuzLDR

23. Analog input, continuous
2. Potentiometer
• Arduino Board
• Potentiometer
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Potentiometer

24. Building the modules
2ª part: design the modules
why craft?
bricoleur VS. engineer

25. Moduls will be made with waste material looking for differents types of interaction and
without observing the traditional desing paradigms

26. Building the system
1ª part: get things together

27. Debugging
analog read:
http://www.arduino.cc/en/
Reference/AnalogRead
digital read:
http://www.arduino.cc/en/
Reference/DigitalRead

29. The code Arduino
processing
http://piratepad.net/8JJZrqTPUf

30. contacts
Web: www.minipimer.tv
Mail: minipimertv@gmail.com