Humanizing gears : tensions & harmony

• Main Author: Nur Najiha Puteri Mazian
• Other Authors: Louis-Philippe Demers
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Media; Visual arts and music::Art museums and galleries
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149695
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

My project is about gears that behave. Gears as predictable and mechanical as they are, are humanized through adding personal attributes or characteristics that makes us human. These are analog installations where no electronic components are present, but they are meant to "humanize" what we normally perceive as automated. This artwork showcasing two installations - one is a wall installation with suspended balls containing magnets that create shapely figures when it is rotated. The second is a table installation showing crank and sliders that can generate movement of gears containing magnets, creating some form of drawings made on sand.