Against Nature: The Arts of the Machine - First Assignment

Preparation
Download/read the Fluxus Performance Workbook from the course blog for examples of performative instructions.

Groups
You are divided into three interdisciplinary teams according to the following themes:

1. Space
2. Time
3. Sound

Site:
All three groups work on the same site – i.e. the intersection between your studio space (marked 2. in Vita Havet) and Seminargatan.

Group 1 designs a system capable of generating an experience of space.
Group 2 designs a system capable of generating an experience of time.
Group 3 designs a system capable of generating an experience of sound.

Treat passers-by as well as the systems devised by the other two groups as your information; your system will generate an experience of its allocated theme and may be left to evolve over successive generations. Your system will be considered ’creative’ if it is generating unpredictable and appropriate outcomes, is responsive to its context and surroundings, and capable of interacting with the two neighbouring systems.

Deadline: set systems in motion 12.00 (lunchtime) Wednesday 8th October
Crit: 13.00 Wednesday 8th October, Vita Havet.