"Printball" (Gaulon, 2005)
Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
As an exponential bulk of agenda altar activate to charge our circadian lives, the addiction for manufacturers to amalgamate assorted functionalities into one "mega" accessory seems to be a accepted methodology. Taking this assumption as a starting point with his accouterments aggressive projects is French media artist, Benjamin Gaulon. From accumulation the apparatus of a Paintball gun with an Ink-Jet printer in his about absurdist "Printball" activity to application the exoteric of an appointment architecture as an alternate apparent in "De Pong Game", Gaulon's projects attack to claiming accepted conceptions of how cyberbanking altar and software should and could action in our circadian lives. By analytical the airiness of abstracts alteration and manual of files beyond the Internet with his "Corrupt" project, he is aswell attempting to animadversion on the acutely aerial attributes of our all-around communications networks. Gizmodo afresh bent up with Gaulon to altercate his access to entering pop cultural icons through artistic interventions in accouterments hacking and how recycling anachronous technology can advance to new forms of collaborative agreeable and beheld expression.
Name: Benjamin Gaulon
Age: 26
Education: Masters at the Ecole Superieuredes Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg (2002) , Masters (Interactive Media & Environment), Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen (The Netherlands, 2005).
Affiliation:Independent, but I accept aswell created a European accumulation of artist, designers, theorist, engineers, etc.. alleged Deponk (www.deponk.com).
URL(s): http://www.recyclism.com,
Recyclism is my accepted website, area I present my works. I started a lot of of my projects with a website alleged www.digitalrecycling.com (a database for agenda book recycling, area humans can upload and download agenda clutter to actualize new works.
GIZMODO: Your project, "Printball", combines the apparatus of an Ink-Jet printer and a Paintball cannon. What were you attempting to ascertain by accumulation these two devices?
BG: The abstraction of the Ink-Jet printer is added conceptual than literal. So it's a Paintball gun (hacked to be automatic, because in Europe [we are] not accustomed to accept automated Paintball guns, so you charge to anon ascendancy the solenoid that triggers the gun) with a custom fabricated Pan and Tilt [mechanism]. The abstraction was to actualize a "graffiti robot" that could shoot images, so instead of application a Paintball gun to play war amateur this apparatus can actualize images and text. I'm (in a lot of of my projects) absolutely absorbed by the abstraction of "detournement" (as Guy Debord as authentic it in 1959) This activity is a Deponk activity (my collective) because it's an abstraction that we had with a acquaintance and French artisan (Geraud de Bizien: www.vastemonde.com). We had the abstraction calm and I afresh accomplished the activity during my Masters at the Frank Mohr Institute.
"Recycling Entertainment System" (Gaulon, 2004)
GIZMODO: The "Recycling Entertainment System" connects six Nintendo Entertainment Arrangement (NES) controllers to a computer to ascendancy a aggregate software synthesizer. Why did you accept these accouterments accessories as interfaces for collaborative music composition?
BG: First, afterwards alive on agenda recycling with the agenda recycling website, I capital to analyze accouterments recycling. I aswell admired the abstraction of recycling the NES controllers, which are for me the agent of videogame controllers (the basics: directional buttons, baddest and alpha and the A and B buttons). Nowadays bold controllers are a bit added avant-garde but basically they are based on those controllers. So it was a way to go aback to the roots of the bold ambassador (they are aswell the video amateur that I could play with as a kid, so allotment of my claimed mythology). With this activity I aswell capital to achieve an alternate arrangement for several players to play and actualize something calm in absolute time. The agenda recycling activity is aswell based on that abstraction but it's not fabricated for "real time" composition, but the structural abstraction is absolutely abutting back both projects are application the abstraction of database jamming to actualize new and aboriginal works (sampling art). The RES has the anatomy of a bandage (with a bass player, a drummer, percussion, a bend amateur and a synthesizer) but it's like a DJ arena as a bandage (jamming with audio samples).
"Corrupt" (Gaulon, 2005)
GIZMODO: Your "Corrupt" activity break down an angel book into its bifold agnate and replaces some of this cipher with a accidental amount from 1 to 20. What were you aggravating to achieve with this project? And why are some of the after-effects too damaged to show?
BG: I'm account the bifold of a file, swapping some bytes (randomly, from 1 to 20 swaps) and I save it again. Afresh addition allotment of the cipher (done with Processing) is loading the adored book afresh (checking if it's still readable) and the clear files are "saved as" in a aftereffect folder. So I alone accumulate the besmirched files that are still readable. This activity explores the absolute of agenda technologies and tries to carbon and ascendancy abstracts corruption: this bribery commonly occurs during abstracts alteration (i.e. e-mail, ftp, etc. - see this hotlink for a complete definition:
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