A Habitat of Recognition

Driver DRV8825 for Stepper Motors for Theremino System

Arduino UNO

3D Printer (generic)

NEMA 17 Stepper Motor

Wood and metal working tools

Teensy 3.1

Processing

Arduino IDE

Servo Module

Stepper Motor

Laser cutter (generic)

<p ></p><div class="se-component se-video-container __se__float-none" contenteditable="false" style="width: 100%;"><figure style="width: 100%; height: 56.25%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/260978763" data-proportion="true" data-percentage="100%,56.25%" data-size="100%,56.25%" data-align="none" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" data-index="0" data-file-size="0" data-origin="100%,56.25%"></iframe></figure></div><p >A Habitat of Recognition enacts an infrastructural imaginary where an ore of granule particles (silica and iron) is written and read as a granular record. The imaginary consists of a coupled machine that reads the ore by performing its erosion and magnetic sorting layer by layer, while simultaneously writing the ore by depositing its residue sediments linearly according to the measured values. The infrastructure depends upon the manual labor of exchanging what was read as an ore with what is written as one, and what was written as an ore with what is read as one in order for the process to continue. The recognition of the ore as a record paradoxically requires its dismantling, and its new writing is prone to the resilience of its residues, entangled labor, and discrete measured values. The ore and the record alter iteratively upon each cycle, thus exhibiting the agencies of matter itself and how it entangles with information.</p><h3 >How it works</h3><h3 >Reading mechanism</h3><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/dc6761b0-e1a4-49c8-b7c6-deb0bbb908a0.jpg /><figcaption>Reading mechanism: push system (linear motion system)</figcaption></figure><p >The reading of the ore and writing of the record is performed by extracting from the ore layer by layer abstract discrete values according on weight. It incorporates a mechanism for filtering matter into binaries by separating granules magnetically. An ore is manually put on top of the machine, and opened.</p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/3d12e89e-aacf-4eda-bbbc-24d0aa2c7587.jpg /><figcaption>Reading in process: erosion layer by layer.</figcaption></figure><p ></p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/d817968f-b5c0-4a97-b028-4e2983c8521d.jpg /><figcaption>Reading in process: erosion and magnet interface for filtering.</figcaption></figure><p >The machine then pushes it by one side via a linear motion system, causing the mixed particles to fall slowly to the other. As soon as the particles fall, a sorting plate and a magnet interface begins its sorting.</p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/22639f95-ed4c-477f-b4ca-4e0555922ed8.jpg /><figcaption>Reading in process (magnet interface filtering)</figcaption></figure><p ></p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/559d8c3b-930b-4a38-b779-7efe41f554e1.jpg /><figcaption>Reading in process (magnet interface filtering)</figcaption></figure><p >On the one side, predominantly non-magnetic particles (white granules) fall; on the other, mainly magnetic particles (grey granules) remains and eventually is sedimented on another residue composite.</p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/140d4677-a299-4ba8-8b4f-8079d1adadbe.jpg /><figcaption>Two residue composites</figcaption></figure><p ></p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/b6609ef0-f855-47c7-b090-4eba20c2368f.jpg /><figcaption>Residue detail</figcaption></figure><p >Bellow the residue composites, two scales measure the changes in weight thus creating its digital record which is sent to the Writing mechanism.</p><h3 >Writing mechanism</h3><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/05216eed-2bf0-4f54-a570-7c74b6566314.jpg /><figcaption>Writing mechanism (depositing/sedimenting)</figcaption></figure><p >The writing of the ore is achieved by the reading of the record and the sedimenting of its residues. An empty ore is manually assembled on the machine’s center, as well as past residue composites are put on its top.</p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/5acf2020-3c20-41ec-b15b-e377fa6b160a.jpg /><figcaption>Linear motion system and extruder (servo motors)</figcaption></figure><p ></p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/430fe755-4a14-43a1-9e2d-4f687eaf9120.jpg /><figcaption>Linear motion system</figcaption></figure><p ></p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/11e74d3f-fcff-4c5f-a694-1609c69efe0e.jpg /><figcaption>Writing in process (sedimentation)</figcaption></figure><p >The two types of particle are slowly dropped within it according to the simultaneous reading of the scales at the Reading mechanism. Both mechanisms work simultaneously, and finish at the same time.</p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/1400315f-a1ca-4ceb-b8fb-99ee1dc5360a.jpg /><figcaption>Completed writing</figcaption></figure><p ></p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/0f341d2a-7580-4c6b-ab4c-a3a3feab6cfd.jpg /><figcaption>Ore</figcaption></figure><p ></p><figure><img src=https://projects.arduinocontent.cc/87ca7e1f-b133-4391-a5bd-2003172af0c8.jpg /><figcaption>Ore</figcaption></figure><p >When the processes are complete, the machines require the manual exchange of the empty/filled ores and empty/filled residue plates.</p><h3 >Thesis</h3><p >The project was conceived as part of a master thesis submitted at the University of the Arts Bremen in 2017, and supervised by Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick, Prof. Dennis P. Paul and Prof. Ralf Baecker. The study consisted of an artistic-based and theory-engaged research on the material dimensions of digital technologies, and aimed to trace a new digital materialism that incorporates infrastructures as core intra-active agencies acting on the tension between distinction and convergence of matter. The research involved a series of experiments that aimed to inquire both technically and conceptually the issues of a new digital materialism from an ontological point of view, and further problematized the tropes of its dichotomous tension between matter and information via tangible enactments.</p><p ><span >The full thesis can be seen at: </span><a href="https://issuu.com/lgdzn/docs/a-habitat-of-recognition-thesis">https://issuu.com/lgdzn/docs/a-habitat-of-recognition-thesis</a></p><p ><span >Downloaded at: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/Z4gByc">https://goo.gl/Z4gByc</a></p><p ><span >More info and further projects at: </span><a href="http://luizzanotello.com/a-habitat-of-recognition/">http://luizzanotello.com/a-habitat-of-recognition/</a></p>

A Habitat of Recognition

An infrastructural imaginary where an ore of granule particles (silica and iron) is written and read as a granular record.