Tristan Perich’s Drawing Machine has been running for 7 weeks continuously. This video shows the progress since we installed the drawing the ISELF Lobby. There is one week left – be sure to visit it before it’s finished!(one second of video is one full day of drawing)
Posted by SCSU Music Department on Wednesday, May 6, 2015
On March 18, New York-area artist and musician Tristan Perich installed his “Machine Drawing” in the Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility (ISELF) and seven weeks later, the drawing is coming to life.
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“Machine Drawings” uses a pen controlled by a machine, which draws a pattern on a wall over a period of time. Made up of a circuit designed and hand built by Perich, the drawing is an expression of one-bit information.
During the past seven weeks, the machine asks itself 30 times a second which direction it should go.
“There is a degree of randomness built into the algorithm, and the path that the drawing takes is entirely random,” said Kristian Twombly, associate professor of music.
The machine has no memory of where it has been, and it doesn’t have a predetermined path of where is it going next. The only parameters fixed are the boundaries.
The machine will stop drawing on May 15.
“Machine Drawing” is co-sponsored by the Creative Art Series, the College of Liberal Arts, College of Science and Engineering and the School of the Arts.
