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Desk Crit:

-will need some sort of a transducer - a device that converts one type of energy to another. (Types of transducers - sensor, actuator, or a combination. A sensor is used to detect a parameter in one form and report it in another form of energy - usually an electrical and/digital signal). For example a pressure sensor might detect pressure (a mechanical form of energy) and convert it to electricity for display at a remote gauge. An actuator accepts energy and produces movement (action). The energy supplied to an actuator might be electrical or mechanical (pneumatic, hydraulic, etc.). An electric motor and a loudspeaker are both transducers, converting electrical energy into motion for different purposes. (source: wikipedia.com)

-sound is determined by pressure - fluctuations in pressure - make the sound audible

-building pressure (actuator) changes with heat/temperature/wind

-play with pressure and respond to it

-the issue is how to amplify and record the changes in pressure

-try to detect and make device to detect that

-pressure picks up movement - the ether - picks up displacements at all levels

-web cam - reverse lens - microscope - microelectronics - hack web cams - can't actually see but pays respect to

-if scale of pressure changes actual scale of actuator changes

-find ways of making things lightweight and small with large, delicate, sensitive spans

-make a material so responsive - with a large surface area - allow for deflection - something like balloons, inflatables? using helium, as pressure changes - is responsive ad how can make this work

-issue of calibration!!!!!! (will need to research this)

-exploring materiality what can do - materials sensitive to pressure

-issue of scale

-pressure - liquid/gaseous - changes

Searches: (MIT Press, Leonardo)

Soundstorm-email the artists

Department of Meteorology - to ask about measuring barometric pressure

Milieu- notion of milieu

Latour/Simondon

-how we negotiate a milieu determine where boundaries are

-interesting ways of looking at the world

ether - air/oxygen/locus of spirits - fluxes -moisture/pressure /energy/19th century biilluminescence

- how the world was described

Bruno Latour

"We have never been modern"

"Leviathan and the Air-pump" - Thomas Hobbes and Robert Boyle

-air-pump and proving the vacuum

-withnessing

-actor-network theory - parliment of things - the apparatus will determine what the experiment will be.

Georges Canguilhem

The Knowledge of Life in "The Living and it's Milieu"

-no distinction between fluid/gas/milieu/ether started to describe patterns in the world.

-perturbations - displaced not coming in or out

Will need to look at devices of amplifying and magnifying

**sensitivity

Look at barometers of the 18th Century - how was pressure monitored before it was digital?

-material amplification change ie. temperature in thermostat, use old devices to search for clues to measuring pressure

-find sensibility that can work with and that will determine what can work with

-barometric pressure -thin pipets - measuring change in length