Project 1: Within this project I am investigating the aesthetics of industrial technology. Using the highly engineered pioneer 10 which constitutes an integral part of our global modernistic age, I will use this to identify its extreme functionality through its material and design.
I will then abstract its aesthetic language as a non-enigineer but as a designer/artists appropriating my own logic of balance , construction and materials to produce a range of experimental prototypes and designs that would then lead to a final outcome / piece finished to a high standard.
What is the pioneer 10:
First mission that was sent to the outer solar system and achieved its closest to Jupiter on december 3rd 1973.Pioneer 10, used Jupiter's gravitational field to alter its trajectory radically.
Size:
The spacecraft body is mounted behind a 2.74-m-diameter parabolic dish antenna that is 46 cm deep. The structure is 36-cm-deep with flat equipment compartment, the top and bottom being regular hexagons. Its sides are 71 cm long with one side joining compartments which carried the sientific experiments.
Interesting fact: A plaque was mounted on the spacecraft
body with drawings depicting a man, a woman, and the location of the sun and
the earth in our galaxy.
The diagram which includes a man and woman standing on the side view of the spacecraft; The man's
hand is raised in a gesture of good will. The diagrams also show the position
of our solar system in the galaxy and chemical information about hydrogen,which is the
most common element in the universe.
The plaque was designed by Dr. Carl
Sagan and Dr.
Frank Drake and drawn by Linda Salzman Sagan.
The pioneer was the fastest man-made object to leave the earth fast
enough to pass the Moon in 11 hours and to cross the Mars orbit, about 80
million kilometers away, in just 12 weeks.
Artists research:
Tom Sachs.... Space program mars:
When Demitrious was introducing the project brief to us he showed us some artists and I was inspired by Tom Sachs work ; a true expert at catorgorizing, labelling or putting his finger on what it is he creates. Sachs is best known for his elaborate recreations of engineering modern icons he is consistently transforming them and his results are transformed over and over again. Nothing is erased, sanded away, or rendered invisible, this means that nothing Sachs makes is ever finished. Like any good engineering project, everything can always be stripped down, stripped out, redesigned and improved. It doesnt mean the project / designs are incomplete it means they are transforming and developing.
http://www.tomsachs.org/exhibition/space-program-mars
The main inspiration for me was that nothing has to be completely finished to be a well presented piece, I like the rendered incomplete aspiration of work Tom produces you get the kind of feeling that the work is complete yet they are still transforming and developiong all the time. I like toms philosophy and his elaborate recreations.
3D Workshop....
I think my first initial idea was not to have an outcome not to be to precious with what I am going to make , so I started off just gathering some materials I found within our first 3D workshop that was recycled by other students: after analysing my A2 image of the pioneer 10 I started to be more hands on looking at the intricate details of the space object. Picking out the details within the image that stood out personally to me what I found appealing .
Prototype 1:
Working in the 3D workshop getting to grips with the machinery and testing out new skills combined with skills that I already knew before. The most interesting part of the pioneer 10 that stood out more to at this point was the middle dial looking object, the round circular shape that has the hexagon attached with stripes. I wanted to recreate my own interpretation of this analysing the intricate details and I did this by coiling wire with pliers and wrapping around a pencil so that the coils were evenly spaced between one another.
At this stage I had no clear idea on what my final outcome will be or what it is I am actually making abit like tom sachs its a developing project I can either keep adding to it and transform and develop my ideas even futher.
I found some recycled pieces of wood and drew a circular shape and cut out. I then cut a smaller hole inside to make it look mre 3D instead of just being flat. I attached my spiral shaped coils to a round copper band that I made and attached that onto the circular wooden piece this portrays my idea of the intricate lines within the hexagon shape on the pioneer 10.
I did find some of the process quite hard as my coils were so tiny and fiddley ; so to prevent this from happening and loosing my grip I wrapped them around a pencil so that they were all the same shape and I measured my copper wires so that they were all the same size.
I then drilled some holes in my 3D circle so that I could feed some wire through so that I could hang it from an attached piece of wood abit like a childs mobile; using the idea that the pioneer 10 was send into space for a reason upon this I decided that my object wouldnt be able to stand alone but to be attached to some sort of form that would give you the whole prospect of it being in the air.
Drawing Workshop...
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