D.W.I Modular
Modular Sculpture System
2013
Different Ways to Infinity
Focusing on the limits between scientific modelization and reality, theory and perception, the installation plays with different meanings of the endlessness. D.W.I gathers experiments as fictional strategies to generate infinity: The complexity of chaos, the space filling capacity of the rhombic dodecahedron, the replication of motorized mechanical systems as clones, or a machine’s effort to raise a pendulum against gravity. “The ancient alliance has been destroyed; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe’s indifferent immensity out of which he emerged only by chance” (Jacques Monod).
D.W.I Modular
The system is composed of 10 rhombic dodecahedrons, geometrical objects part of the family of «Space-filling polyhedra»: shapes that can be assembled to generate a tessellation of an infinite space. These forms act as the building blocks for a sculpture generator.
“These machines and contraptions striving to achieve or illustrate the intricate webs of order and chaos within boundless states, in all their scale or complexity, are powerful objects. They strip away our anthropocentric view of nature, a reminder that it can be neither understood or controlled, making impossible the rationalist perspective. While reminding us of these harsh facts these tireless and pragmatic devices simultaneously communicate to us that they might be better suited to the task of grasping infinity than we are.”
Download “Different ways to infinity” by curator Mónica Bello about D.W.I
Credits
Different Ways to Infinity: Modular by Félix Luque Sánchez in collaboration with Iñigo Bilbao and Vincent Evrard
Iñigo Bilbao: Dodecahedrons Industrial Design .
Vincent Evrard: Arduino programming.
Technic: 10 rhombic dodecahedrons, assembly system based on magnets, steel, polyamide, methacrylate, Arduinos, Xbee, electronic circuits, led lights, ultra sound sensors, speakers. computer.
Keywords
Space-Filling Polyhedra, Rhombic Dodecahedron, Sculpture Generator, 3D Tessellation.
Credits
Different Ways to Infinity: Modular by Félix Luque Sánchez
Iñigo Bilbao: Dodecahedrons Industrial Design .
Vincent Evrard: Arduino programming.
A production of "secteur arts numériques, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles"
With the support of iMAL (FabLAB)
"Different Ways to Infinity: Modular" received a production award from Fundación Telefónica "vida 13"