by firehazard Tue Sep 11, 2012 2:55 pm
A new work by Mr Finer being exhibited at Aid & Abet, a gallery close to Cambridge Station...
http://aidandabet.co.uk/6th September – 6th October"Jem Finer has been working at Aid & Abet through the summer to construct, Supercomputer : Diagram of all Interconnections between Cells and
Computational Units, a 20 x 8 x 8ft drawing in thread of the interconnections in ¡supercomputer!, his ambitious new public artwork for Cambridge CB1 station area.
supercomputer is a digital computer built from simple mechanical switches and powered by the flow of ball bearings acting under the force of gravity. Its 8 bit architecture is designed to calculate cellular automata at the rate of one a day. Cycling through the different permutations of its rules and initial states, it will take over 179 years to exhaust all possible combinations. The myriad patterns of the computer’s output will be used to play pitched percussive instruments of a bell like nature, in effect turning it into a composing calculator, while at the same time using the musical output to sonify its process."
A new work by Mr Finer being exhibited at Aid & Abet, a gallery close to Cambridge Station...
[url]http://aidandabet.co.uk/[/url]
[b]6th September – 6th October[/b]
"Jem Finer has been working at Aid & Abet through the summer to construct, Supercomputer : Diagram of all Interconnections between Cells and
Computational Units, a 20 x 8 x 8ft drawing in thread of the interconnections in ¡supercomputer!, his ambitious new public artwork for Cambridge CB1 station area.
supercomputer is a digital computer built from simple mechanical switches and powered by the flow of ball bearings acting under the force of gravity. Its 8 bit architecture is designed to calculate cellular automata at the rate of one a day. Cycling through the different permutations of its rules and initial states, it will take over 179 years to exhaust all possible combinations. The myriad patterns of the computer’s output will be used to play pitched percussive instruments of a bell like nature, in effect turning it into a composing calculator, while at the same time using the musical output to sonify its process."
