Cartesian pineal gland
Materials : Aluminum profiles, Aluminum tubes,
Magnetic memory core, Threaded rods,
Plexiglass, Wires, Arduino Nano, Laser,
Electromagnets, Custom PCB
Software : Arduino, C
Year : 2022
Exhibition : Water light festival - Water light lab
(Brixen, 3-21. May. 2023)
DIS/PLAY 22. Eight perms for a digital age
(Bremen, 21-26. May. 2022)
Hochschiltage, HFK Bremen
(Bremen, 2-3. July. 2022)
Produced with guidances from Dr. Petra Klusmeyer, Prof. Dennis P Paul, Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick, Prof. Peter von Maydell, Prof. Ralf Baecker
Magnetic memory core, Threaded rods,
Plexiglass, Wires, Arduino Nano, Laser,
Electromagnets, Custom PCB
Software : Arduino, C
Year : 2022
Exhibition : Water light festival - Water light lab
(Brixen, 3-21. May. 2023)
DIS/PLAY 22. Eight perms for a digital age
(Bremen, 21-26. May. 2022)
Hochschiltage, HFK Bremen
(Bremen, 2-3. July. 2022)
Produced with guidances from Dr. Petra Klusmeyer, Prof. Dennis P Paul, Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick, Prof. Peter von Maydell, Prof. Ralf Baecker
The name “Cartesian pineal gland” means Rene Descartes’s pineal gland.
The pineal gland is a small organ inside of the brain and it produces melatonin which is regulating sleep patterns. However, in the 17th century when renowned philosopher Rene Descartes lived, nobody knew what this organ is.
This apparatus uses Rene Descartes’s hypothesis about the pineal gland as text data and magnetic memory core as a storage device. It magnifies the physicality of data and information by showing intermingled points between intangible data and physical material.
It transmits a character by a character from texts written by Descartes as an input into the device. The control module converts them to ASCII binary code and sends one bit of data to each memory core. Then generated signals flip the magnetic polarity of memory cores and induce voltage from it. These voltage spikes from the memory core turn on the electronic magnet and magnetic flux around the electromagnet distort laser reflection on the surface.
The pineal gland is a small organ inside of the brain and it produces melatonin which is regulating sleep patterns. However, in the 17th century when renowned philosopher Rene Descartes lived, nobody knew what this organ is.
This apparatus uses Rene Descartes’s hypothesis about the pineal gland as text data and magnetic memory core as a storage device. It magnifies the physicality of data and information by showing intermingled points between intangible data and physical material.
It transmits a character by a character from texts written by Descartes as an input into the device. The control module converts them to ASCII binary code and sends one bit of data to each memory core. Then generated signals flip the magnetic polarity of memory cores and induce voltage from it. These voltage spikes from the memory core turn on the electronic magnet and magnetic flux around the electromagnet distort laser reflection on the surface.
