in wind, in streets
In this project I want to develop my own kind of artistic research about the wind, what is my relationship to it and what is its relationship to me, as well as what is technology's relationship to the wind and what is the wind's relationship to technology, and also the relationship between robot and human. The idea is to use different methods of measuring the wind (e.g. anemometer, windsock) and to make my object mobile, so that I can use it to walk or it can walk by itself (the desire to make the robot walk comes from my interest in walking - I want the robot to be like me - like my child or my dog) - and I don't have to take care of it, because it would be autonomous - it would be using the energy of the wind to measure it and it would be able to walk through it and maybe even get me. Inside the robot there is a camera that records how the robot is walking, what the wind speed is at that moment (he measures the wind with a diy anemometer that is on his head). In the future I would like to try to make a robot out of waste that I find on the streets when I walk, so that the robot is some kind of creature born from the street that I would let back out on the street to live.
I would like to collaborate with Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service, to visit the Vilnius Aviation Meteorological Station, other meteorological measuring stations (in places with stronger or brighter winds, e.g. Nida, Šilutė/Pagėgiai), to visit wind farms and to understand how they work.
The relevance of my project is supported by similar projects by other artists, such as the project Structure of Affect: Sensing Plants, Doodling Robots by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas and their work Futurity Island, exhibited at the NDG 2023, kinetic wind-driven sculptures by Theo Jansen, and the art practice of Hanna Husberg.
The idea came up during the workshop Love letters to my fellow human, organised by art doctor Mindaugas Gapševičius in the AltLab space in SODAS2123, Vilnius.