Life-Patterns-Objects is an interactive installation by Bram Amendt that translates video content into a three-dimensional mold. The mold is then used to produce a ceramic object. The “life” that’s patterning these objects comes in the form of a meaningful video supplied by the user. Perhaps it’s a video of your child’s first steps, a piano recital, or your hang gliding adventure last summer. The rhythm of the sounds or the movement of the images from the video is used as data to guide a simple cutting machine.
The cutting machine consists of a hot wire cutter mounted on a horizontal axis and a turntable that holds EPS foam. Guided like a CNC machine by the video data, the hot wire moves along its axis from the outside to the center of a cylinder of foam, which rotates on the turntable. The hot wire moving through the rotating foam produces a positive and negative shape. The negative shape becomes the push mold for wet clay and the ceramic object is born. In Amendts words, “Only the owner will know which event has determined the shape of the object. This makes it a very personal and valuable object.”
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