It my my honor to create this interactive Newton's Cradle from the 6th Munich Science and Art Festival - 2019

My idea was to enable to users to experience with their own eyes, the kinetic energy involved in this game.

I took the challenge of designing, manufacturing and doing everything that has to do with the software and hardware from scratch.

this device is now in permanent exhibition at Motionlab Berlin

Interactive Newton's Cradle - Deutsches Museum München

This year, the theme of 48 Stunden Neukölln was Authenticity. 

I find this issue interesting because it has to do with everything. Not just art, but even with our own DNA. Our body replicates itself be creating clones that are supposed to be as authentic as the original cells. But can you consider a 40 years old person as authentic as a newborn baby? And what about the very moment of the baby being conceived? 

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And art? If a master make some sketches and their assistants are doing the rest of the work, is it still authentic work of the master?

How about photography? Is a photo of a sculpture in a museum can be considered as new authentic art pieces?

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I decided to deal with this issue by creating a repetitive copying process of a miniature sculpture of Winged Victory of Samothrace. Each instance is based on a 3D scanning of the previous one.

The Authenticity of Replication / 48 Stunden Neukölln 2018

Prototyp II is a light sculpture which creates an illusion of light moving slowly through fabric tubes.
It was created as decoration for a NYE party of 2017

Prototyp II - light sculpture / 2017

Unlike traditional workflow which comprises computer design and then manufacturing, this time the beginning of the sculpture was a hand building of the 3 legs of the sculptures. 

Only after they were completed, they were measured and plates were CNC milled with decorative art accordingly.



  Zum brennenden Bären Effigy - 2019

How will the evolution of artificial intelligence entities be? Could an artificial intelligence develop
self-awareness and consciousness? How will it adapt its physical appearance, should it develop
such properties?
‘Die Lebende Maschine’ (~ The Living Machine) is an attempt to predict and discuss a possible
scenario where such an event takes place.
How will those machines adopt their way of life from nature? Could that be a step to
hypothetically take them back, compared to the way we experience development? How do we
perceive physical and intelligent development of us, and of the smart machines that we develop,
which in turn become a permanent part of our life.

This event is a part of 48 Stunden Neukölln art festival


Many thanks to Rieger Ofri for the graphic design,
And to MotionLab.Berlin who allows me to create this artwork in their space

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Wie wird die Entwicklung künstlicher Intelligenz aussehen? Könnte eine künstliche Intelligenz
Selbstbewusstsein und Bewusstsein entwickeln? Wie wird sie ihr Erscheinungsbild anpassen,
wenn sie solche Eigenschaften entwickelt?
"Die Lebende Maschine" ist ein Versuch, dieses mögliche Szenario vorherzusagen und zu
diskutieren.
Wie werden diese Maschinen ihren Lebensstil von der Natur übernehmen? Könnte das ein
Schritt sein, der sie hypothetisch zurückwirft, im Vergleich zur Entwicklung die wir erleben? Wie
nehmen wir unsere physische und intellektuelle Entwicklung - und die der von uns entwickelten
intelligenten Maschinen, welche ein fester Bestandteil unseres Lebens werden, wahr?

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