Title: Freestyle Wandering Machine

Category: #responsiveenvironments

Author: Dominik Strzelec, Galo Moncayo

Year: 2011

Url: http://echoechonoisenoise.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/freestyle-wandering-maschine/

Description: Driven by immediate surrounding, machine deposits material while sensing and moving within it’s territory. Traces left by it’s passing alter the landscape it operates within step by step. Instant decisions solidify, aggregate and therefore shift or constrain its possible future trajectories. Moving away from industrial precision towards almost primitive, still mediated digitally ways of constructing and articulating the space poses a question wether material traces of networked culture have to be necessarily highly technological. Matter, whether tangible or virtual becomes a medium of record. Since there is no other blueprint than the behavior itself, resulting shapes gain their specificity from tool resolution, medium fidelity and saturation of generative processes leaving them as traces.