College needs: A4 log with Thoughts, Articles, Technical Investigations, Exhibitions, Experimentation. Demonstrate: (1) ability to plan and manage practise based research, (2) reflect critically on my work, (3) situate my research in relation to appropriate theoretical frameworks. 

Ceiling Fan Installation: The plan is to use various and different ceiling fans as elements for a slow and probably pretty noisy ‘sequencer’, which will work describing a  circular motion. Like persons compelled to follow their everyday routines - running after buses, doing tedious jobs or simply being with people they don’t like - the blades of the fan run continuously. One of my main ambition would be to represent the moment when something different happens, that very special bit (or beat?) when the routine is broken by a stranger or by a disturbing element. You see, hear or feel something, you meet and talk to somebody and, for a moment, everything changes. But often, the big city does not allow this to last a long time.. creaking and scraping, everything starts again. 

Each fan will be positioned at different heights so that the blades can run closely  enough but without touching each other. The visitor is invited to “play” with the speed of each fan. This will occasionally make the blades overlap in an unpredictable way giving life to a sonic event that could be either acoustic and mechanical or just an occasion to trigger digital processes. 

Even if the visitor will have a primary role controlling the speed of the movements, thus making this installation interactive, the most important interaction will happen “in the air” between one fan and another. Events will be triggered in a random fashion, creating a situation for chance operation sonic events.

Interaction > I will experiment with different media : radio-transmitters, microphones-speakers feedback, accelerometers, temperature sensors, hall effect sensors (magnets), acoustic objects (wood, metal, bells, springs). 

Make it! > There are several problems that I still needs to solve: how to slow down an AC motor, how to wire something on a rotating head, how to hang the final piece

Research & Theory > 

• Making videos positioning the camera on a series of rotating objects (record player, blades, car wheel, bicycle wheel*, windmill, earth!, propellers); Making a graphical representation to show people and test the project.

• Chance operation (Background noise - Brendon La Belle);

• Interactivity: the role of the viewer;

• Kinetical art sculpture (Calder, Theo Janses, Pe Lang, Realist Manifesto - Contructivism) > *Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel (first ready made object and one of the first kinetic sculptures: a non-functional machine operated with mass produced parts which was completely subverting the notions of the artist’s crafts and the viewer experience).