omnifab: two does not equal to one
2023 - 2024 Fall Academic + Individual Work University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - MS Digital and Material Technologies - MS Practicum Instructors | Catie Newell, Mark Meier
This project appears as the sequential piece of Light Leak where the interaction with bodily movement , light and sound are reconfigured in a way where the movement of the hand transformed into the movement of the light with the material change. Two CPX’s respond to the change of color in the light converting it into the sound. With the projection of color animation on the sound object - a grid of double-curved surfaces that reflect some of the light and emit some of it, color of the light as a sense is intepreted through 8-bit sounds. Again, the machine aims to transform the sense of color and light into sound.
The waterjet is used in the project to cut discrete 2D thin gauge metal parts that will be folded, tabbed, and bended into a series of different cones. The material switch changes the game. The learning here comes in understanding the design alteration necessary to switch from PETG to metal. The fact that changing the tool, the material, and the opacity, greatly affects the result of the object as it derives the transformation of senses from Light Leak. Incidentally, light behaviors shift from a glow and diffusion, to shards, shadows, and leaks.