Integration Animal
Thinking of Vaucansons´ Digesting Duck from 1739 and the idea of simulating life,
the fur-animal is reduced to the basics of this intention:
a slowly breathing fur-ball with lightsensitive, wiggeling snaily eyes is controlling (and listening to) a very special analog instrument playing a Swanlake-tune.
Instead of demonstrating its inner physical processes, it shows its reaction on stress: in case of being blinded, its getting really nervous. While its breath is accelerating to a maximum, the motor, which turns the disc to crank the little musicbox, freaks out. It calms down in a dark surrounding and seems to feel save, relaxed and cosy then, purring like a little kitten…
But still the disc in front of it appears to be a mirror showing the LEDs and cables inside of its own robot-body.
Technical informations
The eyes are photo-sensors, which control the velocity of a servo and a motor over 2 independent metronomes. The more light they get, the faster the little servo/ the motor moves. An additional single actor ist connected to one of the photosensored eyes to move themselves.