<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html style="direction: ltr;" lang="en-ca"> <head> <title>Erika Lincoln's Lab</title> </head> <body style="color: rgb(135, 135, 135); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" alink="#829984" link="#827e99" vlink="#998691"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><big><big><br> <big>ERIKA LINCOLN&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </big></big></big></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><small><big><big><a href="cannery.html">Cannery</a></big></big></small><big><big>&nbsp; |&nbsp; </big><small><big><a href="index.html" target="_top">Main</a></big></small></big></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><big><br> <big><br> Scale </big>2002<br> <br> <img style="width: 640px; height: 426px;" alt="splice" src="artimages/Scale0.jpg" align="left"><small><span style="font-style: italic;"><br> </span></small></big></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><big><small><span style="font-style: italic;">Scale:&nbsp; each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another</span></small></big></span><br> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><big><small><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></small></big></span><br> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><big><small><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Scale presents a struggling vertebraic object which scratches the surface it is mounted to. This object is always in motion but not locomotive: as the viewer approaches the object it moves faster but cannot escape its situation.&nbsp; Placed along the walls are 20 amplifier boxes, which broadcast the sounds of the object's attempts at self-determined ambulation.&nbsp; Under the objects outer branches sound is picked up by contact microphones that are linked to the amplifiers through a network of audio cables.&nbsp; The reactive and kinetic components are comprised of a light sensor embedded in the object, servo motors, and a micro-controller.&nbsp; Together these elements make up a elementary sensing and responding system, alluding to our own more complex internal systems of perception and action, yet stripped bare exposing itself as a network where the signal's path can be traced.&nbsp; Scale's allusion to a human body's perceiving system is more of an illusion when it comes to presenting a sensing/responding object as sentient, but the illusion does question how we as humans define and use terms such as perceiver, actor and stimui when discussing an experience.</small></big></span><br> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span></div> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><big><small><br> <br> <br> <br> </small></big></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span><br> <br> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span></div> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Quicktime <a target="none" href="quicktimes/scale.mov">video documentation</a><br> <br> <br> </span> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><img style="width: 320px; height: 222px;" alt="" src="artimages/Scale2.gif">&nbsp;<img style="width: 320px; height: 224px;" alt="" src="artimages/Scale3.gif">&nbsp;<img style="width: 320px; height: 222px;" alt="" src="artimages/Scale4.jpg"> </span><br> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span></div> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span><big style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"></span></big><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><big><small><br> <br> </small> </big></span><small style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" class="style4">All images and texts on this site are copyright of Erika Lincoln unless otherwise noted and are not to be reproduced in any form without express consent of the author.<br> ©Erika Lincoln 2008</span></small> </body> </html>