‘127109 & 127110’ (2014) by Lotte Geeven.
Two sensory robots deployed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. According to currents of the sea the two objects are supposed to meet in the middle of the ocean approximately one year from now. The location and time of the deployment of both objects has been carefully calculated in order to optimize the chances of an encounter. The movement of the robots can be followed on http://127109and127110.com.
Helmut Smits, ‘1847 meter, the distance from my house to my studio’ (2010)
extension lead 10 m
extension cord red 25 m
extension cord yellow 20 m
extension cord green 12 m
extension cord white 3 m
extension cord IKEA KOPPLA 5 m
installation wire black 100 m
rope brown 100 m
rope white 20 m
rope off white 20 m
rope IKEA blue10 m
rope black/blue/white 20 m
sisal rope 45 m
polypropylene rope yellow 45 m
polypropylene rope blue 45 m
polypropylene rope brown 45 m
flexible tube 5 m
nail band 10 m
tape measure 3 m
tape measure 30 m
iron wire 1,5mm green 25 m
iron wire 50 m
iron wire green Gamma 50 m
iron wire green Skandia 50 m
clothesline 20 m
tensioning strap orange 5 m
tensioning strap blue 4 m
stretching foil 150 m
coaxial cable 5 m
yarn 65 m
sandpaper roll kwb 5 m
sandpaper roll 5 m
electrical wire black 5 m
electrical wire white 5 m
electrical wire brown 5 m
electrical wire with switch 2 m
elastic band 10 m
thread 100 m
masons line 40 m
phone cord 2 m
iron cord 3 m
melamine edge 2,5 m
nylon thread 25 m
bandage 4 m
plaster tape 5 m
duct tape 50 m
insulating tape black 4,5 m
insulating tape brown 4,5 m
insulating tape yellow/green 4,5 m
insulating tape blue 4,5 m
insulating tape green 25 m
masking tape Elma 25 m
masking tape Tesa 50 m
12mm masking tape 50 m
masking tape purple 25 m
double sided foam tape 1,5 m
double sided carpet tape 5 m
sealing tape 5 m
aluminum tape 5 m
packing tape Scotch 66 m
packing tape Tesa 66 m
packing tape fragile 66 m
packing tape transparant Scotch 66 m
packing tape transparant Zeeman 25 m
adhesive tape 33 m
adhesive tape crystal 33 m
teflon tape 12 m
‘Entering Meters Going Nowhere’ (2014-ongoing) by Kris van Dessel.
Measuring and entering the distances traveled in his studio while working.
Each month the total number of meters has been entered in Google to find a mountain with the equal number of meters as height.
Sagi Groner, ‘Misshapen’ (2006)
Composed entirely of images found in the internet, Misshapen is a meditation on vision technologies and the philosophy of precision.
From Alfred Lukyanovich Yarbus‘s book, ‘Eye Movements and Vision’ (1967). Scan patterns for four of the observers in the study as they freely viewed the portrait of Yarbus.
Yarbus is one of the founders of modern eye movement research. His work – based on the development of a method for accurately recording eye movements, using suction caps on the eyes – has had a profound influence on recent approaches to the study of eye movements and vision.
