Biography
Biography
Biography
>> Data entry: Feb 2016
Transition
A miniature natural environment for experimental drawing
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
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Exhibition: 14 Sep - 14 Oct 2016. Bern School of the Arts, Switzerland.
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Hardware: Microscope, CCD Camera, 3D printed chamber, Arduino board, voice sensors.
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Software: Fusion, CCD Camera controller.
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Programming language: Java - Processing
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Medium: Fresh ice blocks, ice box.
Documentation:
>> Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice.
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 processes-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.
GENERATED DRAWINGS
"In his experiments entitled “Transition”, Diaa Ahmedien focuses on an ‘artificial’ method of drawing production, monitoring a series of drawings created spontaneously, 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" >> (Ionascu and Rohr, 2016).
RECORDED FRAMES
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