PROJECT DETAILS WRITTEN BELOW.

DRAWINGS:

The instrument works in collaboration with the artist, creating unique spatial representation drawings of elemental forces, temperature and humidity.  Extracting the system from the institutional setting this project works through multiple parts.  One where the instrument is specifically sited in an bodily environment within the architectural space for a duration of 24 hours and then moved daily throughout the site for a week.  The instrument is marking the temperature and humidity levels.  The collaborative drawings are visual representations of sensorial aspects to our environment which the body regulates, but is unable to create as output.  The second parts are sets of drawings where the instrument is sited and remains in the same location for the duration of the week with paper changed daily, paired with photographs within the isolated siting of the instrument.

Art and science create systems of discourse for systems within nature, situations and chance.  This project explores drawing and the creation of unique imagery by extracting the individual from the direct process; bypassing intuition or imagination to achieve a different sensorial collaborative drawing. The Hygrothermograph, a data driven instrument used within laboratories, museums and institutional settings, is removed from its original purpose.  Paired here with photographs from specific site locations relating to bodily presence.

The Oakton company who manufactures a form of the device used describes them as, “Precision instruments useful for monitoring temperature and relative humidity conditions over time. They create a permanent chart recording of these measurements for your records. Their quartz-controlled drive maintains an even drum speed even when batteries are weak (or when the spring winding runs down).” 

The human interaction with the instrument to make the invisible visible is the determining factor changing the object from instrument purely designed for scientific data processing.  When the individual becomes engaged in the process, creates a system and changes the purpose of the device to engage critical thought the object then carries a different objective. These monitors within conservation relate to everything from architecture and sense of interior / exterior space to contexts of movement and time.

Red Line - Temperature

Blue Line - Humidity

*Example photograph of instrument used is included above.