Artist's Statement : Interactive Art Project 2 — Experimental Motion
- lewe7871
- Apr 29
- 1 min read
This one started with the servo motor and a potentiometer. The assignment was motion-based and that combination made immediate sense to me as one to one; you turn the dial, you control the position of the arm. Clean, direct, satisfying in a mechanical way.
Pinball came to mind too. The idea of an arm batting something around a track. I liked that energy but couldn't figure out how to build the track itself. Then it clicked! A clock face already is the track. The ball just rides the arm around the dial. The whole thing was already there, I just needed to repurpose it.
Once I had the clock the concept came fast. Time is money. Money makes the world go round. So I ran with it literally. The clock face is layered with images of the earth, the globe superimposed over the clock face. The ball riding the arm is covered in pictures of money. And the hand of time is physically making the money go around the world every time you turn the potentiometer.
For the arm itself I used an image of my own hand. Flipping the bird.
That part felt important, as the whole piece is about the frustration of living inside a system where so much of your time goes toward doing things you didn't choose, just to survive. The middle finger isn't just a joke, but the whole point. There's something exhausting about being this bound to time and money, about not being able to just live a little more freely. The clock keeps moving whether you want it to or not.
So I made one I could control.
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