Soup is on, November 18th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 2pm until 4pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.
Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook. Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace: 110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823 Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).
For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!
Art Cooperative Looks to Expand Community
Piece on our Director Luke Hackney, and Lansing Art Works, in today’s State News.
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Soup is on, September 30th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.
Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook.
Food will be provided by Buffalo Wild Wings and Harrison Roadhouse.
Sunday Soup is hosted by Luke Hackney at (SCENE) MetroSpace:
110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823
Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).
For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!
Livestock, Russell Arthur Bauer, past Sunday Soup recipient.
From Russell’s proposal:
Live Stock is an exploration into the development of open-source agricultural controllers through the creation of living interactive animatronic inflatable hanging sculptures.
The form of piece is inspired by glow in the dark worms found in caves of South America. It is a hanging irrigated armature supporting the growth inside of a led impregnated plastic skin allowing the propagated wheatgrass protection from potential human pathogens, through filtered pressurization. The LEDs will pinpoint the portion of the visible spectrum utilized in the photosynthesis of both chlorophyl a and chlorophyl b. The (agricultural plastic) skin of the living sculptures will also be equipped with three motion sensors, that will allow the sculptures to react to the viewer.
The sculptures will respond to the viewer in three ways. First the sensors which will be interfaced to the open-source microprocessor platform Arduino, allowing them to control three stepping motors; one stepping motor to each sensor. Each stepping motor will control two cables; one attached to the inner armature and one attached to the outer skin. The motor and cable system will allow the hanging wormlike sculpture to recoil from the viewer. The second level of anthropomorphic behavior will be in the LEDs. The LEDs in the plastic skin of the creature will blink and undulate in response to the viewers presence. The third level of response to the viewer is the irrigation system. The pieces will only receive water when a viewer is present. The combination of behavioral traits displayed in the living sculptures will make them appear simultaneously apprehensive of the viewer (demonstrated by their recoiling from the viewer and defensive flashing of their lights) and dependent on the viewer for water.
On the top of the sculptures (above the viewers head) will be the controllers (brains) and actuators (stepping motors) as well as the fans inflating the skin with air forced through a filter. The filter will keep the area around the wheatgrass clean and free of human pathogens. The sculptures will be designed to be harvested weekly and replanted with pre-sprouted mats of wheatgrass that will be sewn onto the armature in 16” segments. At the weekly harvesting the wheatgrass is to be juiced and fed to the viewer.
Soup is on, June 24th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.
Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook.
Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace:
110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823
Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).
For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!
Soup is on, April 15th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.
Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook.
Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace:
110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823
Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).
For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!
