PNTZ mechatronics experts and artists create Sludge Worm
9 December 2013 (09:32)
December 9, 2013. The mechatronics experts from Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) and Moscow-based artists created an interactive piece of art called Sludge Worm. This was done within the framework of Science Art Lab (a joint project of PNTZ, a member of ChTPZ Group, and Pervouralsk Palace of New Culture), the company’s press service reports.
The idea took root in the mind of two artists, Dmitri and Elena Kavarga. The plant’s team was headed by a mechatronics teacher from PNTZ Training Center Vyacheslav Aprodu, who acted as the co-author of this kinetic interactive object called Sludge Worm.
‘This is the first time I tried to create something that would let me apply my mechatronics expertise to a work of contemporary art. I personally found the process madly fascinating, it expanded my own and my students’ – the future ‘white metallurgists’ - professional horizons,’ Aprodu says.
The creative lab combining Art and Science produced something that never existed before: on the outside, Sludge Worm looks like an abstract combination of geometrical shapes - numerous tubular cylinders, cubes, and parallelepipeds. Inside this ‘body’ one can see a metallic skeleton fitted with mobile joints that is operated by several engines. These engines and joints and some other devices that the authors decided to keep secret allow Sludge Worm to detect approaching people and react to them by changing its position and shapes and by reproducing the noises of a plant in operation.
The idea took root in the mind of two artists, Dmitri and Elena Kavarga. The plant’s team was headed by a mechatronics teacher from PNTZ Training Center Vyacheslav Aprodu, who acted as the co-author of this kinetic interactive object called Sludge Worm.
‘This is the first time I tried to create something that would let me apply my mechatronics expertise to a work of contemporary art. I personally found the process madly fascinating, it expanded my own and my students’ – the future ‘white metallurgists’ - professional horizons,’ Aprodu says.
The creative lab combining Art and Science produced something that never existed before: on the outside, Sludge Worm looks like an abstract combination of geometrical shapes - numerous tubular cylinders, cubes, and parallelepipeds. Inside this ‘body’ one can see a metallic skeleton fitted with mobile joints that is operated by several engines. These engines and joints and some other devices that the authors decided to keep secret allow Sludge Worm to detect approaching people and react to them by changing its position and shapes and by reproducing the noises of a plant in operation.
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