2021-08-03T08:28:12Z

Nari28:

[[:Category:Fachmodul|Werk/Fachmodul]] 
''Lecturer:'' [[Christian Doeller]] 
''Credits:'' 6 [[ECTS]], 4 [[SWS]] 
''Date:'' Tuesday, 9:30 until 12:45 
''Venue:'' Online, "Park an der Ilm" and [[Marienstraße 7b]], Room 201 
''First meeting:'' April 13, 9.30

Video Link: https://vimeo.com/532615636 
Password: speculativeAtmospheres

Description:

How can we sharpen our perception and look at the seemingly familiar from a
new perspective?

In the module "Speculative Atmospheres" we will explore the ever-changing
states of our environment. We will operate by means of our own senses as well
as with the filters, magnifying glasses and distorting mirrors of technical
systems.

We will experiment with Arduino, Processing and various sensors to convert
environmental phenomena into electrical voltages and numerical values.
Through visualizations, sounds or kinetic objects, we will generate new
sensory experiences from the collected data.

Our class will partly take place in the "Park an der Ilm“ in Weimar. Here we will
take walks, train our perception, test ideas and develop prototypes. The park
as a hybrid ecosystem will be our experimental laboratory, our speculative
atmosphere.

The module will be a mix of technical, "creative" and theoretical components. The aim is to not only work together on our technological capabilities, but also to critically look at the topics/positions/ideas we are dealing with.

Participants:

* [[/Maximilian Glass/]]
* [[/Emil Torp/]]
* [[/Robin Wieber/]]
* [[/Junting Liu/]]
* [[/Fei Xie/]]
* [[/Anna Wißmüller/]]
* [[/Egor Gavrilov/]]
* [[/Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht Pittelkow/]]
* [[/Marta Iranzo/]]
* [[/Ingrid Kussatz/]]
* [[/Alina Draeger/]]
* [[/Andrea Geyer/]]
* [[/Sofie Heinz/]]
* [[/Andrea Geyer_n/]]

Sensor Tutorials:
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0033_keyestudio_Analog_Temperature_Sensor Analog Temperature Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/KS0487_Keyestudio_37_in_1_Sensor_Kit_upgrade_v3.0#Project_22:_Analog_Sound Analog Sound Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0048_keyestudio_Water_Sensor Water Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0049_keyestudio_Soil_Humidity_Sensor Soil Humidity Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0040_keyestudio_Analog_Gas_Sensor Analog Gas Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0272_keyestudio_Analog_Piezoelectric_Ceramic_Vibration_Sensor Analog Piezoelectric Ceramic Vibration Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0309_Keyestudio_Thin-film_Pressure_Sensor_(Black_and_Eco-friendly) Thin-film Pressure Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0034_keyestudio_DHT11_Temperature_and_Humidity_Sensor DHT11 Temperature and Humidity Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0051_keyestudio_Infrared_Obstacle_Avoidance_Sensor Infrared Obstacle Avoidance Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0270_keyestudio_MMA8452Q_Module_Triaxial_Digital_Acceleration_Tilt_Sensor Triaxial Acceleration Tilt Sensor / Gyroscope]
* [https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/qwiic-ultrasonic-distance-sensor-hc-sr04-hookup-guide/hardware-overview HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0009_keyestudio_Photo_Interrupter_Module Photo Interrupter Module ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0024_keyestudio_Knock_Sensor_Module Knock Sensor Module ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/KS0487_Keyestudio_37_in_1_Sensor_Kit_upgrade_v3.0#Project_15:_Capacitive_Touch Capacitive Touch Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0036_keyestudio_Flame_Sensor Flame Sensor]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0052_keyestudio_PIR_Motion_Sensor PIR Motion Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0025_keyestudio_Digital_Tilt_Sensor Digital Tilt Sensor ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0020_keyestudio_Hall_Magnetic_Sensor Hall Magnetic Sensor (Magnet not included) ]
* [https://wiki.keyestudio.com/Ks0203_keyestudio_Steam_Sensor Steam Sensor]

Artists / Links:

* [https://olafureliasson.net/archive/artwork/WEK101003/the-weather-project Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project]
* [https://www.nodegree.de/work/the-cosmic-and-the-affective/ Kerstin Ergenzinger: The Cosmic and the Affective]
* [http://ursuladamm.de/sensor/ Ursula Damm: I am a Sensor]
* [http://www.blubblubb.net/OneTreeID/index.html Agnes Meyer Brandis: One Tree ID]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stFyG_AAje8 Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: From Here to Ear]
* [https://www.dwbowen.com/telepresent-wind David Bowen: Telepresent Wind (...)]
* [https://www.marcobarotti.com/Clams Marco Barotti: Clams]
* [http://smitesmits.com/PondBattery.html Rasa Smite & Raitis Smits: Pond Battery / Swamp Radio]
* [https://www.niklasroy.com/workshop/144/ Niklas Roy: Umbrellaphone Workshop]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO7f1mXuWe4 DIY#1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIzwv6LcriA DIY#2], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1WKCtWiA&t=327s DIY#3]
* [https://www.jennifergabrys.net/ Jennifer Gabrys]
* [https://www.jiri-suchanek.net/en/project/turbulence/ Jiří Suchánek]

Schedule:

April 13 – Introduction

April 20 – Arduino (I)
: - starter kit components
: - breadboard connections
: - analog / digital converter
: - hello world! (blink LED & feedback in serial monitor)
: - button input & button input with LED
: - variables + if statements

April 27 – Arduino (II)
: - analog input potentiometer
: - analog input LDR + voltage divider
: - analog input + LED PWM output

May 04 – Processing
: - introduction
: - basic drawing
: - basic sound
: - Arduino X Processing

May 11 – Park an der Ilm

May 18 – Sensors (I)
: - sensor presentations (see list above)
: - personal projects

May 25 – Sensors (II)
: - sensor presentations (see list above)
: - personal projects & Miro

June 1 – consultations
: 09:30 - 10:30 – class meeting
: 10:30 - 11:00 – Ingrid
: 11:30 - 12:00 – YOUR NAME
: 12:00 - 12:30 – YOUR NAME
: 12:30 - 13:00 – YOUR NAME

June 8 – consultations
: 09:00 - 09:30 – Marta
: 09:30 - 10:00 – YOUR NAME
: 10:00 - 10:30 – Sofie
: 10:30 - 11:00 – Egor
: 11:30 - 12:00 – Friedrich
: 12:00 - 12:30 – Andrea

June 15 – consultations
: 09:00 - 09:30 – Anna
: 09:30 - 10:00 – Alina
: 10:00 - 10:30 – Junting
: 10:30 - 11:00 – Fei

June 22 – class presentations @ Ilm Park

June 29 – class presentations @ Ilm Park

Topics:

Technology:
*Getting started with Arduino
*Connecting and reading different sensors
*Getting familiar with different output possibilities
*Basic visualizations with Processing
*Establishing a ping-pong connection between Arduino and Processing
*translating sensor data into movements, drawings, sounds…

Art & Thinking:
*Contemporary (media) art positions that relate to the subject matter
*Different ways to observe processes and dependencies in our surroundings
*Strategies in working with sensor technologies and input/output systems
*Feedback mechanisms, cybernetic circuits
*Relations between humans – technology – „nature“/environment
*Relations between the physical and the digital
* // DIY: make your own sensor
* // Anthroprocene - discourse

Literature:
*Make: Getting Started with Arduino, EAN 9781449363314
*Arduino Cookbook, O’REILLY, German/English, ISBN Print: 978-3-86899-353-0
*Das Sensor Buch, O’REILLY, ´German, ISBN 978-3-95561-902-2
*Make: Sensors, ISBN: 9781449368104
*Make: Getting Started with Processing, MIT Press, ISBN: 9781457187087
*Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers, ISBN: 9780262028288
*Arduino Tutorials 1: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
*Arduino Tutorials 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYfK0tzHZTpNFrc_NDKfTA
*Processing Tutorials 1: https://processing.org/tutorials/
*Processing Tutorials 2: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

*Karen barad: Agential Realism / Agentieller Realismus, ISBN 9783518260456
*Hannes Bergthaller, Eva Horn: Anthropozän zur Einführung, ISBN 978-3-96060-311-5
*Klimakunstforschung, ISBN: 3883962996
*Christiane Heibach: Dem Spüren auf der Spur: Zur Wahrnehmung biologischer und technischer sensorischer Systeme, Link: https://www.medienobservationen.de/pdf/20200430Heibach1.pdf
*Verena Kuni: The Plants Are (Watching) Sensing, Link: https://www.medienobservationen.de/pdf/20200430Kuni6.pdf
* Field_Notes – From Landscape to Laboratory, https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/hybridmatters-production/media/Field_Notes-From_Landscape_To_Laboratory-2013.pdf
* Richard Brautigan/Adam Curtis: All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, https://allpoetry.com/All-Watched-Over-By-Machines-Of-Loving-Grace, https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/
* Emma Marris: The Nature You See in Documentaries is Beautiful and False, https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/04/problem-nature-documentaries/618553/

Material fee / personal equipment:

*there will be a material fee of max. 30€ for basic things like Arduinos, breadboards, wires, …
*Links to the equipment needed will be sent via e-mail.
*Our module will partly take place outside, bringing your own laptop is required.

Venue / Structure:

The module will initially be held online via video conference: https://meeting.uni-weimar.de/b/jor-irj-ap6-so8. However, there will be lots of practical exercises that explicitly involve "the outside world".
In summer, it is planned to have sessions outside in the "Park an der Ilm" in Weimar, perhaps also in a kind of classroom situation in the DIY electronics studio in M7 201.

Language & skill level: 
*The module will be held in English, unless all participants are speaking German.
*No prior knowledge of electronics/programming is required.

Criteria for passing:

*document exercises on the wiki, present them for the rest of the class
*experiment, attend the classes and develop your own prototype relating to the topic

Application:

*The application deadline will be on April 6, 2021
*Please send an e-Mail with the subject „Application Speculative Atmospheres“ to melanie.birnschein[AT]uni-weimar.de
*Your e-mail should contain the following info:
::# Full name and matriculation number
::# course of study, BA/MA
::# Your e-mail address
::# A small PDF containing previous works
::# Your motivation for joining the module

GMU:Speculative Atmospheres/Andrea Geyer

2021-07-30T10:56:26Z

Nari28:

17/07/2021 – final presentation at green pavillion, Ilm Park Weimar – –

semester project:

'''Sound gloves [AT]
'''

[[File:___1__2_3__Handschuhe.jpg|400px]]

How does distances sound?

————————————————————

17/07/2021 – Zwischenpräsentation im Ilm Park –

'''Auf dem Weg mit den Handschuhen...
'''
Die Handschuhe sind gebaut, aber klingen tun sie noch etwas diffus. Zudem ist unklar, wie sie zu handhaben sind.
Ich beobachte die anderen, die sie der Reihe um benutzen, und schaue, wie sie auf die Handschuhe – ohne vorherige Instruktion, ohne Kommentar – reagieren.

Manche drücken sich die Hände –aus Überraschung ob der plötzlichen Geräusche – gegen die Brust, manche verstehen die sich gegenüberliegenden 'Messflächen' (weiße Fläche auf rechtem Handschuhe, schwarze Fläche mit integriertem Sensor auf linkem Handschuhe (– es klingt!)), manche heben die die Hände zur Luft, so dass der Sensor keine 'Gegenfläche' mehr hat.
Vielleicht kann ich mir von diesen Reaktionen etwas mitnehmen …

Ich bin auf jeden Fall mir gewiss, dass das Handschuhpaar noch weiter ausformuliert werden möchte. Weiß aber noch nicht, in welche Richtung es gehen soll. You'll figure out as you go along.. :)

————————————————————

08/06/2021

Ideensuche für ein spannendes Sensorprojekt:

''== irgendwas mit Distanzen ... ?
==''

Idee 1

[[ Die Klangwolke ]]

Ich möchte ein riesige Wattewolke bauen, die auf Geräusche reagiert. Sie hängt im Eingang eines kulturellen Raums und baumelt dort still und unversehens an der Decke herum. Doch die Wolke reagiert sehr sensibel auf Geräusche in ihrer Umgebung. – Wenn jemand zu laut niest, zuckt sie, und ruckt an ihrem Nylonfaden, an dem sie hängt, bedrohlich nach unten. Ist es ganz ruhig im Raum, versteckt sie sich oben unter der Decke.

Was will die Wolke uns damit sagen? Warum ist sie so empfindlich?

–Die Woke als Sinnbild für Fragilität und gleichzeitige Bedrohlichkeit. (Kommt der Regen? Wird sie uns berühren?)

Idee 2
[[ durch Käferaugen ]]

Wir haben so viel Empathie mit Pferden, Delfinen, unserem Hund, allen möglichen Säugetiere. Aber wie steht es um die Insekten? Denkt sich je mal einer in das Empfinden, in die Wahrnehmung eines Käfers rein? Ich möchte zeigen, wie sich ein Käfer wohl fühlen mag.

Ich baue das Modell eines wunderbaren kleinen Käfers, der auf den Erdboden installiert wird. Hinzu gibt es einen kleinen Bildschirm, wo man das sieht, was der Käfer sieht, durch seine Käferaugen.
Mithilfe eines Sensors, der im Käfer implementiert ist, erkenne ich nun, wenn ein Mensch sich nähert (-oder beinahe den Käfer berührt-).

Je näher jemand dem Käfer kommt, desto verschwommener und verruckelter wird das Bild, das man durch die Käferaugen-Perspektive sieht. Ein Gefühl von Angst und Bedrängung / Beklemmung kommt auf.

Wie muss ein Insekt sich wohl fühlen, da unten, auf dem Erdboden, den wir selten anders als blind mit unseren Füßen betrachten?

Idee 3
[[ Schattenklänge ]]

Ich möchte Schatten, die ja meinst nicht stabil sind sondern sich stetig je nach Lichteinfall verändern, in Klänge transformieren. Wie genau, das verrate ich im Kurs… ;)

————————————————————

13/05/2021

'''perception exercise in the park'''

[[File:fullsizeoutput_730-800x533.jpg|400px]]

When walking in the park with plain perception, it feels to me like the whole park is a stage. And everything that’s happening is reacting to each other like in a stage play.
The bird reacts to the jogger who’s passing by, the joggers rhythm is commenting on the rusteling of a tree's leaves, and the tree is reacting with a glittering of its leaves to the bird that is still after the jogger…
it’s like a concerted orchestration.

– I draw connections, without intending to do so, and even though these things are most likely not meant to be connected it just happens intuitively and automatically in my head.
It feels like everything is interacting with each other, the ‚natural‘ as well as the ‚unnatural‘ parts in this park,
They are all ONE organism.
and it would be an even more difficult task to NOT draw links between all the elements that are there.

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.18.37.png|400px]]

While walking in the park it’s never silent. There is no single moment… when there is nothing to be heard.
Moreover I have the feeling, that sounds, voices and other noises are becoming even louder when you are focused and you’re listening closer to them.
It becomes almost overwhelming the more you focus; there is no real silence, no second,

Everything’s alive.

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.18.47.png|400px]] I see little shells of small seed swinging in invisible spiderwebs in the wind

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.18.53.png|400px]] I see blooming blossoms, that are about to flourish up

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.02.png|400px]] I see traces in the bark of an old tree,

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.09.png|400px]] scratches,

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.10--x.png|400px]] Crust,

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.16.png|400px]] and traces of the sun, carved as shadows on the ground of the walking path.

When I look closer I see that everything is in a transition state, in a transformation process, and and some of these transformations will leave traces, some will not.
I just realize everything I see and hear it’s just a momentary state, it will never last forever.

I hold the fragile soft beechnut shell in my hand and I don’t want to let it go.

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.30.png|400px]]

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.39.png|400px]]

– . – . – . – .

And later on I think…
This process of ‚zooming in’ into the details of our environment, it could be really exhausting (and overwhelmling, and upsetting) if we did this constantly.

So maybe our perception system developed on purpose a functionalism that works in a way which ‚saves‘ us from overstimulation:

we look at things, quickly, recognize them [= as being the things we learnt they are], say „Aha!“ [= aha, this is it. I recognize it!], and move on.
So our usual ‚superficial‘ way of perceiving things is also a coping mechanism of our own inner system because if we would really perceive everything in so much detail we would most likely be really really overwhelmed.

And I feel reminded of people with forms of autism that can't help but be stimulated by so many things at the same time. And many of those people love to listen to e.g. the roaring of a vacuum cleaner or watch the rotating of a spinning top as these are constant, steady sounds or movements (with certain patters): it calms them down. And I think: Now why is it that listening to a vacuum cleaner rather makes me nervous than calms me down? and for other people its the other way round? Maybe a sound/movement/whatever needs to be so steady and continuously that it secretly slips into our subconscious.

-------------------------------

An experiment with the LED sensor of an Arduino, linked to Processing graphics:

'''pulsating cat’s eye '''

When the light is high, the pupil of the cat’s eye widens,

when the light is low, the pupil of the cat’s eye closes.

[I know in reality, the cat's eye works the other way round… ;) ]

--> The color of the pupil also changes, from bright (high value) to dark (low value)

[[File:__cateye1.png|400px]]

[[File:__cateye2.png|400px]]

[[File:__cateye3.png|400px]]

[[File:__cateye4.png|400px]]

the relevant part of the processing code:

if (data != null) {
int intData = int(data); // ---> !! variable for incoming data

background(255, 255, 0);
noStroke ();
ellipse (560, 360, 600, 600);
/* ---> 1. circle: 'background circle' (just as a referrence for the 2. circle) */

noStroke ();
fill (intData, intData, intData); // set fill colour with the value read
ellipse (560, 360, intData, 600);
/* ---> 2. circle: the 'pupil' (visualizes the incoming data) */
}

GMU:Speculative Atmospheres/Andrea Geyer

2021-07-30T10:53:32Z

Nari28:

17/07/2021 – final presentation at green pavillion, Ilm Park Weimar – –

semester project:

'''Sound gloves [AT]
'''

[[File:___1__2_3__Handschuhe.jpg|400px]]

How does distances sound?

————————————————————

17/07/2021 – Zwischenpräsentation im Ilm Park –

'''Auf dem Weg mit den Handschuhen...
'''
Die Handschuhe sind gebaut, aber klingen tun sie noch etwas diffus. Zudem ist unklar, wie sie zu handhaben sind.
Ich beobachte die anderen, die sie der Reihe um benutzen, und schaue, wie sie auf die Handschuhe – ohne vorherige Instruktion, ohne Kommentar – reagieren.

Manche drücken sich die Hände –aus Überraschung ob der plötzlichen Geräusche – gegen die Brust, manche verstehen die sich gegenüberliegenden 'Messflächen' (weiße Fläche auf rechtem Handschuhe, schwarze Fläche mit integriertem Sensor auf linkem Handschuhe (– es klingt!)), manche heben die die Hände zur Luft, so dass der Sensor keine 'Gegenfläche' mehr hat.
Vielleicht kann ich mir von diesen Reaktionen etwas mitnehmen …

Ich bin auf jeden Fall mir gewiss, dass das Handschuhpaar noch weiter ausformuliert werden möchte. Weiß aber noch nicht, in welche Richtung es gehen soll. You'll figure out as you go along.. :)

————————————————————
Ideensuche für ein spannendes Sensorprojekt:
'''irgendwas mit Distanzen ... ?'''

weitere Ideen:

Idee 1

[[Die Klangwolke
]]
Frage / Idee:
Ich möchte ein riesige Wattewolke bauen, die auf Geräusche reagiert. Sie hängt im Eingang eines kulturellen Raums und baumelt dort still und unversehens an der Decke herum. Doch die Wolke reagiert sehr sensibel auf Geräusche in ihrer Umgebung. – Wenn jemand zu laut niest, zuckt sie, und ruckt an ihrem Nylonfaden, an dem sie hängt, bedrohlich nach unten. Ist es ganz ruhig im Raum, versteckt sie sich oben unter der Decke.
Was will die Wolke uns damit sagen? Warum ist sie so empfindlich?
Die Woke als Sinnbild für Fragilität und gleichzeitige Bedrohlichkeit. (Kommt der Regen? Wird sie uns berühren?)

Idee 2
[[
durch Käferaugen

]]
Wir haben so viel Empathie mit Pferden, Delfinen, unserem Hund, allen möglichen Säugetiere. Aber wie steht es um die Insekten? Denkt sich je mal einer in das Empfinden, in die Wahrnehmung eines Käfers rein? Ich möchte zeigen, wie sich ein Käfer wohl fühlen mag.
Ich baue das Modell eines wunderbaren kleinen Käfers, der auf den Erdboden installiert wird. Hinzu gibt es einen kleinen Bildschirm, wo man das sieht, was der Käfer sieht, durch seine Käferaugen.
Mithilfe eines Sensors, der im Käfer implementiert ist, erkenne ich nun, wenn ein Mensch sich nähert (-oder beinahe den Käfer berührt-).
Je näher jemand dem Käfer kommt, desto verschwommener und verruckelter wird das Bild, das man durch die Käferaugen-Perspektive sieht. Ein Gefühl von Angst und Bedrängung / Beklemmung kommt auf.
Wie muss ein Insekt sich wohl fühlen, da unten, auf dem Erdboden, den wir selten anders als blind mit unseren Füßen betrachten?

Idee 3:
[[
Schattenklänge
]]

== Huhuuuu! ==
Ich möchte Schatten, die ja meinst nicht stabil sind sondern sich stetig je nach Lichteinfall verändern, in Klänge transformieren. Wie genau, das verrate ich im Kurs… ;)

————————————————————

13/05/2021

'''perception exercise in the park'''

[[File:fullsizeoutput_730-800x533.jpg|400px]]

When walking in the park with plain perception, it feels to me like the whole park is a stage. And everything that’s happening is reacting to each other like in a stage play.
The bird reacts to the jogger who’s passing by, the joggers rhythm is commenting on the rusteling of a tree's leaves, and the tree is reacting with a glittering of its leaves to the bird that is still after the jogger…
it’s like a concerted orchestration.

– I draw connections, without intending to do so, and even though these things are most likely not meant to be connected it just happens intuitively and automatically in my head.
It feels like everything is interacting with each other, the ‚natural‘ as well as the ‚unnatural‘ parts in this park,
They are all ONE organism.
and it would be an even more difficult task to NOT draw links between all the elements that are there.

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.18.37.png|400px]]

While walking in the park it’s never silent. There is no single moment… when there is nothing to be heard.
Moreover I have the feeling, that sounds, voices and other noises are becoming even louder when you are focused and you’re listening closer to them.
It becomes almost overwhelming the more you focus; there is no real silence, no second,

Everything’s alive.

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.18.47.png|400px]] I see little shells of small seed swinging in invisible spiderwebs in the wind

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.18.53.png|400px]] I see blooming blossoms, that are about to flourish up

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.02.png|400px]] I see traces in the bark of an old tree,

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.09.png|400px]] scratches,

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.10--x.png|400px]] Crust,

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.16.png|400px]] and traces of the sun, carved as shadows on the ground of the walking path.

When I look closer I see that everything is in a transition state, in a transformation process, and and some of these transformations will leave traces, some will not.
I just realize everything I see and hear it’s just a momentary state, it will never last forever.

I hold the fragile soft beechnut shell in my hand and I don’t want to let it go.

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.30.png|400px]]

[[File:Bildschirmfoto 2021-05-13 um 12.21.39.png|400px]]

– . – . – . – .

And later on I think…
This process of ‚zooming in’ into the details of our environment, it could be really exhausting (and overwhelmling, and upsetting) if we did this constantly.

So maybe our perception system developed on purpose a functionalism that works in a way which ‚saves‘ us from overstimulation:

we look at things, quickly, recognize them [= as being the things we learnt they are], say „Aha!“ [= aha, this is it. I recognize it!], and move on.
So our usual ‚superficial‘ way of perceiving things is also a coping mechanism of our own inner system because if we would really perceive everything in so much detail we would most likely be really really overwhelmed.

And I feel reminded of people with forms of autism that can't help but be stimulated by so many things at the same time. And many of those people love to listen to e.g. the roaring of a vacuum cleaner or watch the rotating of a spinning top as these are constant, steady sounds or movements (with certain patters): it calms them down. And I think: Now why is it that listening to a vacuum cleaner rather makes me nervous than calms me down? and for other people its the other way round? Maybe a sound/movement/whatever needs to be so steady and continuously that it secretly slips into our subconscious.

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An experiment with the LED sensor of an Arduino, linked to Processing graphics:

'''pulsating cat’s eye '''

When the light is high, the pupil of the cat’s eye widens,

when the light is low, the pupil of the cat’s eye closes.

[I know in reality, the cat's eye works the other way round… ;) ]

--> The color of the pupil also changes, from bright (high value) to dark (low value)

[[File:__cateye1.png|400px]]

[[File:__cateye2.png|400px]]

[[File:__cateye3.png|400px]]

[[File:__cateye4.png|400px]]

the relevant part of the processing code:

if (data != null) {
int intData = int(data); // ---> !! variable for incoming data

background(255, 255, 0);
noStroke ();
ellipse (560, 360, 600, 600);
/* ---> 1. circle: 'background circle' (just as a referrence for the 2. circle) */

noStroke ();
fill (intData, intData, intData); // set fill colour with the value read
ellipse (560, 360, intData, 600);
/* ---> 2. circle: the 'pupil' (visualizes the incoming data) */
}