Responding to Heidegger
In response to Heidegger I would like to re-engineer dining
lights into nature by forming them to a tree stump. I want the tree stump to
speak to the nature side of Heidegger and though it will be a dead remnant of a
living tree I think this will allow for the conversation to go both ways in
order to speak to the living nature we are overtaking with our technology but
also the decomposition of nature which we have over run with technology. I want the lights to randomly turn on and off
through a random set pattern using an arduino. The randomness will speak to the
random arrangement of nature and its design, which we do not implicate through
our technology. Although the randomness of the patterns of the lights will
truly not be “random” due to the set coding done by the arduino, it will have
no specific pattern for one to follow and distinguish. The lights will randomly
turn on and off from one another and link up from time to time but with no
specific agenda. The pairing up will speak to the relationship we as humans
have we nature as we tend to be in sync at times by using technology to create
solar panels in order to friendly harvest the suns rays as power yet most companies
producing solar panels and the construction of such devices rely heavily on
coal powered operations, being out of sync with nature.
The Log Light will be installed in a gallery setting but
will have the same effects if installed outside in a meadow or in the desert.
The log itself will be harvested from the forest in hopes to find a rustic log
that shows signs of a stressed nature and the wear of time. The lights which
will be attached to both ends of the log will be of a vintage quality, to
hopefully hark to the age of Heidegger’s essay but any era will do just as long
it is not present day. I feel it is important to have an aged log with dated
lights due to the fact of the time period of which Heidegger brought up these
issues. His points are still very valid today and still address some major
issues we have with technology as we advance further and further into a
technology driven land. I will also be
adding on relays to the project in order for the arduino to switch on and off
the lights. My hope for the viewer when both lights are off to see a morphed,
aged log with lights attached to both ends and question the purpose, as too is
so much of Heidegger’s writing questioning the purpose and meaning behind
technology and what is to become. I want the viewer to question when the lights
might turn back on if they are to turn back on at all and possibly wonder why
we rely so heavily on technology. These questions and more I hope to invoke
through the viewer and have them contemplate through a viewed experience of my
Log Light.
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