friends have asked me in here or what
what's the idea behind the piece and
obviously I could give them an
explanation but I'm really interested in
the sort of abstract audio-visual
experience it's almost like a zen-like
meditation state you can't really
describe it or put it into words
what was one of the core ideas from the
very beginning was to make things come
to life we've worked in screen-based
media for a very long time but in the
past few years we've become more and
more interested in working with physical
objects we call them physical digital
sculptures and they all try to take a
technological artefact and bring it to
life give it a human behavior and
something that we can find ourselves in
Spectre 3 is the latest one in our
series Victor 1 was basically a big
solar sail animated with a wind machine
spectre-2 was essentially a kinetic
landscape animating so the piece of the
Moon represented as a sort of golden
triangle mesh
spectra three looks like a communication
device and that's on purpose we wanted
to have that very machining technology
feel and then bring it to life with a
behavior that is very human that has a
lot of personality it's about three
meters tall so you can look it in the
eye but it's a little bit bigger than
you
there's longing to connect with
something is what spectre-3 does it's
trying to find someone that is like
itself and I think that's a bunch of
feelings that everyone can relate to
throughout the first trucky soft wakes
up and manages to make contact with a
few low sounds low moments of clarity
and you get like all the lights coming
on and there's all sort of shadows and
reflections and stuff like that and then
it kind of loses a signal and goes back
into a searching state and then spectra
being bombarded by loads of different
frequencies and noise and ice loads of
flashing lights and like strobe effects
and things like that
and then again he sort of manages to
lock onto a signal and he sort of easily
transitions back and the whole sort of
story plays again when you get really in
front of it it might just like start to
look at you you will be less than the
motion is not of a technical nature it's
a sort of organic fluid nature a lot of
the times you make things real computer
screens we switch the screen off and
it's going forever but we have a thing
here where we made it on the computer
screen it was there and now it's here
but five meters tall and we had one
animation which kind of it just made the
pound go down and then back up again but
we messed it up somehow so it would go a
bit too far so it's literally just
standing there for a minute just bashing
itself against the the bases crashing
every time and it's like you're watching
a kid bashing his head against the wall
continuously again again you definitely
get an attachment to it just because
it was good he's gonna break himself
you get a lot of respect there if you
spend like 1000 kilogram of stainless
steel around and try out how fast it can
go without
crashing and without killing somebody
I'm very happy to see so many people
being so drawn in by it do you see that
there is hundreds of mobile phones
everyone wants to take a picture it's an
Instagram magnet looking at the state of
where the world in our culture is in
right now we're constantly online
constantly on Facebook and Instagram
moments where you really truly connect
to a friend are actually rare and
everyone's looking for them through
light the object actually does that
maybe it's a bit of a reminder that the
true sort of one-to-one connection is
actually really valuable
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