This was an experiment designed to actively change my homeostasis (which is a new term I added to my practice diagram). Homeostasis must be altered if you are to be altered. Each picture represents one cup of coffee, guzzled at 20 minute intervals. I held a pen lightly to a sheet of paper (as a sort of measurement, knowing that coffee makes me tremble), and the results are the pictures below, in order (20 minutes, 40 minutes, etc...). Better quality scans will replace these, soon...
After the last experiment in Detroit with the snow, I can see why homeostasis was added. I am wondering about stabilization and if that comes into play or not. Were you pushing back? Also, when consumption was added to my vocabulary I immediately thought of using coffee in a similar method. We should work on an experiment together.
ReplyDeleteYES! The problems I encountered with this experiment is that it's too personal and with the drawings it begins to approach 'art'. What Iain and I decided should happen is that if I were to do this again, the subject should be a system (or embedded in a system) and not me as an individual. My next experiment was to then do this socially... very simply, to start a conversation with a friend and drink a cup at every 20 minute mark. It would be interesting to see how a common social practice, a talk over a cup of coffee, would be able to escalate into a different mode of engagement around cup 5 or 6 (maybe). The only rule I thought should be in place is that the participants wouldn't be able to make any reference to how they feel (nauseous, hyper, etc.), that way all affects are manifested through the conversation and not personal references. I've been looking for a partner... please let me know if your interested! And what I've proposed is just an idea, it doesn't have to be that way.
ReplyDeleteif you want to record these engagements in some way i can lend you one of my recorders.
ReplyDeleteI am interested. Let's talk, this proposal sounds good. If we are meeting Tuesday maybe then. Recording is a good idea, thanks Justin.
ReplyDeletewell -- i am not convinced
ReplyDeletesystems have multiple stable states. many thresholds.
this system just has two (well known) states (unshaky and very shaky)
given that they are known experiment seems to just prove the known --
what I meant by a system was to explore a field to find new thresholds and new stable states -- here is where a diagram comes in handy -- you can already lay out the known states etc. and seeing where the unknown spaces might be....