Separated Physical Collaboration

Introduction

In today’s world, remote collaborations are in an unprecedented increase in use, new digital platforms to facilitate remote interaction are at their peak, based on these new living conditions, we ask ourselves How to work on a physical project together?

We decided to do an exploration with artistic potential that involves technical issues for its operation. The main idea of the project revolves around control, transmission and reproduction.

References

Marcel Duchamp

Study of phases of motion
Nude descending a staircase

Arduino Painting Machine

Heather Hansen – Emptied Gestures

Robot Artist Quincy

Concept

Using a webcam to trace the hand movement of a dancer present in certain location and then installing a polar plotter in a different location to reproduce the path of the artist’s movements

Basic setup

Human control: Dance

Software

Everything that is happening online is programed in the p5.js webeditor. Using Node.js to setup a server, socket.io to create the websockets to communicate between the different clients,

and ngrok to tunnel the port of the server. To communicate between the arduino and the DrawBot side we are using p5.serialcontrol.

Drawing with wrist – P5.js / Pose.net