I visited Ian M Clothier, electronic artist and co-founder of Intercreate Trust in his New Plymouth home studio, where we discussed his projects.
Namely the Haiku Robots which at the time he was exhibiting at Puke Ariki Museum New Plymouth – New Zealand.
This is a series of photographs taken at both his home studio and Puke Ariki Museum in September 2009.
HAIKU ROBOTS: literally sends numbers to the computer, based on their changing location at the boundary of the project space. Numbers can be converted to text, just as a phone does. Over time, word lists are generated and these are searched through for strings of words that can be construed as poetry.
Visit Ian’s website to stay current with his projects.
A haiku robot word list:
hazy
pile
loops
top
DISTRICT OF LEISTAVIA: Hybrid micronation The District of Leistavia, where online response and voting forms were used to create the Leistavian Constitution and query cultural identification.
Your post is valuable, thanks for the info 🙂
Your effort on identifying and posting about Ian is much appreciated. I am interested in Theoreticians & Artists who are inquiring, researching, developing and sharing the concept of hybridity.
Warmly
Manu
Thank you Manu – indeed Ian’s work is interesting. You may also be interested in the group “Intercreate.org – Art, Science, Culture, Technology” I believe Ian was the founder. Please see here a link to the organisation’s website: http://www.intercreate.org
Sure!
Thanks Tahnia