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A miniature natural environment for experimental drawing
Jul 2015 - Jan  2016
 
  • Exhibition: 14 Sep - 14 Oct 2016. Bern School of the Arts, Switzerland.
  • Hardware: microscope, CCD camera, 3D-printed chamber, Arduino board, and voice sensors.
  • Software: Fusion, CCD camera controller.
  • Programming language: Java - Processing   
  • Medium: Fresh ice blocks, ice box. 

Documentation:
>>Go to the link: Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice.
>>Go to the link: Free access to the published article.
Jul 2015 - Jan  2016
DOCUMENTATION

The 'Transition' project utilized technological tools to harness the ice's natural properties. The goal was not to control the ice block during its transition from solid to gas but to monitor these phases, integrate their properties into a process-based experiment, and generate a set of experimental drawings. Thus, ice's natural transitions created the drawings, while the system monitored, augmented, selected, and recorded the right moment.

Within this context, this project represents a non-traditional attempt to construct a miniature nature environment, supported by artificial means, with the goal of seeking and creating experimental drawings. In a custom-made chamber, microscopic techniques were used to inject ink gel into tiny blocks of solid ice. This process allowed us to create some artistic sketches on the inner surface of ice blocks. With an innovative technique, it was possible to control the ink distribution rate inside the ice blocks and record the ink paths as artistic sketches using microscopic recording processes.  

This project takes an environmentally conscious approach by moving beyond the simplistic view of water as just a medium for transition. It emphasizes the function of water as a holding medium, capable of carrying countless particles and distributing them across its three material states. In this context, ink—recognized as a pollutant—travels through water, a medium that facilitates the widespread transportation of these pollutants in all three states, from the earth to the atmosphere.

In this context, the experimental drawing by the distributed ink particles recontextualizes the materiality of the pollutant to raise questions regarding the conflict between the duality of water's vital role in healthy life and its serious role in sickness and death.

MENTIONS

"In his experiments entitled 'Transition,' Diaa Ahmedien focuses on an ‘artificial’ method of drawing production, monitoring a series of drawings created spontaneously and emulated in a scientific, set-up environment. Rather than being controlled and fixed, the drawing experiments performed in the project become traces of detailed movements, subtle changes, and mark fluctuations.

 

The drawings result from and sum up a set of physical processes (depending on time, pressure, humidity, etc.), revealing their interaction at play. Such reactions refer to the materiality of drawing translated visually—a ‘live’ documentary of creating form. In considering the act of drawing as an interactive process, Diaa Ahmedien questions the content and value of both the process of drawing and its end product"

>>Go to the link: (Ionascu and Rohr, 2016).

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