Big Screens concept

(Still working on the title)
by Adi Marom and me

Our concept is an attempt to transform the high-tech context of the big digital wall by representing a big industrial machine made of gears, racks, pinions, and other linkages; a composition of mechanical pieces that move according to the laws of physics, creating a chain reaction through time.
The idea suggested by the piece is that it’s the natural dynamics of friction and collision that create the final representation on the screen, instead of a series of digital bits.

The movements and dynamics of the machine will lead to a single final action, they will control the occurrence of sunrise and sunset, by physically moving a mechanical sun.
The gradual increase of light as the sun raises up on the big screen will affect the illumination of the room itself, creating a live simulation of the quiet passage from darkness into light and into darkness again.

Gears used to control devices that told us the time of day, but now gears lost their function as everyone gets the time from their digital watches or mobile phones and no one really needs a mechanical watch. The concept behind our work is an attempt to play around with the opposition between analog and digital.

The idea was inspired by the playful machines by Arthur Ganson.