1.- The aim of the project is to reflect about the following questions:

• Is “space,” an absence or a presence, where the inter-announcer (user in any case) is a protagonist or an spectator?
• Is the machinery behind a responsive architecture a forger of culture or it can only be a real-time portrait of the actual space-time context?
• Is the never-ending pursuit for death… with the strongest intention of avoiding it, one of the catalizers of technology?
• Are technology’s boundaries pushing the threshold of what can be called the secular-world, or these boundaries simply do not exist?
• Is it possible to blur the boundaries between what is created and the creator?
• Is this boundary (between creator an creature), the main reason of a lack of assertivity in solving problems which involve life on earth?
• Is the synergy between the different systems which work in a swarm-behaviour the only reason for the subsistence of these?

As a platform to develop and support the project, the 5 following arguments: The Quinque viae, or Five Ways, are five proofs of the existence of God summarized by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica. Will be used to explain and describe the project:

1. The argument of the unmoved mover (ex motu). Some things are moved. Everything that is moved is moved by a mover. An infinite regress of movers is impossible. Therefore, there is an unmoved mover from whom all motion proceeds. This mover is what we call God.

2. The argument of the first cause (ex causa). Some things are caused. Everything that is caused is caused by something else. An infinite regress of causation is impossible. herefore, there must be an uncaused cause of all caused things. his causer is what we call God.

3. The argument of contingency (ex contingentia). Many things in the universe may either exist or not exist. Such things are called contingent beings. It is impossible for everything in the universe to be contingent, as something can’t come of nothing, and if traced back eventually there must have been one thing from which all others have occurred. Therefore, there must be a necessary being whose existence is not contingent on any other being(s). This being is what we call God.

4. The argument of degree (ex gradu). Various perfections may be found in varying degrees throughout the universe. These degrees of perfections assume the existence of the perfections themselves. The pinnacle of perfection, from which lesser degrees of perfection derive, is what we call God.

5. The argument of “design” (ex fine). All natural bodies in the world act for ends. These objects are in themselves unintelligent. To act for ends is characteristic of intelligence. Therefore, there exists an intelligent being which guides all natural bodies to their ends. This being we call God. The following links will also help to support some of the intentions of the project.

Glossary

• GOOD/GOD: the machinery of GOOD/GOD: Is it really good/god?

SPACE: Absence-presence

• CAD-CAM:

CAD: Computer aided design.

COPY-PASTE: Collage, montage, and compositing: There is a strong intention in setting the process as the heart of the project, this is not to start or to end something but to continue, by recycling a previous idea or project, also as a deep intention of showing that this days, the poiesis is much related with Ctrl+C; Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V than with the START or THE END, this is more a TO BE CONTINUED…

CAM: Computer aided manufacturing.

• LOGOS λόγος: to-create something.

AMORPHOUS: Shape-less. Diffuse boundaries.

GENESI γένεση: to-create something. To give birth to something.

POIESIS ποιεσις: to-create something. To pro-duce something.

PARTHENO GENESI παρθένο γένεση: to be self-created, created ex-nihilo.

ERASURE: Subvert the images original function and create a void where absence becomes a presence in its own right. Valid also in the sense of poiesis (ποιεσις) and genesi (γένεση):

Charles cohen: Erasing actors and actress from porn scens.

Alexander apostol: Erasing openings from buildings’ fascades.

Cory Arcangel: Erasing Mario bross from the world of Mario Bross

上を向いて歩こう 涙がこぼれないように 思い出す春の日 一人ぼっちの夜 上を向いて歩こう にじんだ星をかぞえて 思い出す夏の日 一人ぼっちの夜 幸せは雲の上に 幸せは空の上に 上を向いて歩こう 涙がこぼれないように 泣きながら歩く 一人ぼっちの夜 悲しみは星の影に 悲しみは月の影に 上を向いて歩こう 涙がこぼれないように 泣きながら歩く 一人ぼっちの夜 一人ぼっちの夜

The following links will help to set a back-ground to work with:

The subject:

The mechanics and aesthetics:

The main system to study and to develop from, is the leg system developed by Theo Jansen, this mechanism is going to be analysed and manipulated in order to emerge a new behaviour and to be able to reflect about the questions set above.

“Since 1990 I have been occupied creating new forms of life. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature. I make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind, so they don’t have to eat. Over time, these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually I want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.” (Theo Jansen)

2.- Developing process 

I.- Different aligments of the digital modell, analysis of the taken leg system by Theo Jansen

(pictures)

II.- The evolution of the assembly and testing of the mechanism, changing sizes and rotation angles… a good mistake was found… Frist evolution (video)

III.- Different sizes of the first rotor (pictures) It seems that the variation of this piece might be useful to increase or decrease the length of each step of the Good/God

Analysis:

With a length of 50mm on the rotor the distance of the step is 438.19mm (901.12-462.93)
With a length of 60mm on the rotor the distance of the step is 523.87mm (945.81-421.94)
With a length of 70mm on the rotor the distance of the step is 608.50mm (990.27-381.77)
With a length of 80mm on the rotor the distance of the step is 691.87mm (1034.37-342.50)
With a length of 90mm on the rotor the distance of the step is 773.89mm (1078.06-304.17)
With a length of 100mm on the rotor the distance of the step is 854.35mm (1121.19-266.84)
With a length of 110mm on the rotor the distance of the step is 933.13mm (1163.69-230.56)

IV.- Looking for a movement able to express a non-sense, with the propose of questioning the real worth of innovation, a non-translational behavior was chosen, this is the gyroscope.