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One Hundred and Eight is an interactive wall-mounted Installation mainly made out of ordinary garbage bags. Controlled by a microcontroller each of them is selectively inflated and deflated in turn by two cooling fans.

Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively and moving creatures which waft slowly around like a shoal. But as soon a viewer comes close it instantly reacts by drawing back and tentatively following the movements of the observer. As long as he remains in a certain area in front of the installation it dynamically reacts to the viewers motion. As soon it does no longer detect someone close it reorganizes itself after a while and gently restarts wobbling around.

nilsvoelker.com

2.40 x 1.80 m
fans, plastic bags, MDF, relays,
a camera, a computer, a microcontroller
and countless screws

summer/autumn 2010

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  • Gary Warner plus 1 year ago
    elegant, remarkable, wonderful!
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  • DieTapete 1 year ago
    this is art! really mesmerizing.
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  • Martin Bircher plus 1 year ago
    ganz toll!
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  • maria luque 1 year ago
    wow
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  • Sebastian Wolf 1 year ago
    Schön. :)
    Und es reagiert auf seinen Betrachter. Ich bin begeistert!
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  • robbert seghers 1 year ago
    great work! makes me think of tim van cromvoirt's work ' lungplants' : vimeo.com/10630487
  • Nils Völker plus 1 year ago
    Thanks and thanks for the tip, that's really a nice piece of work.
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  • Ilona Koglin 1 year ago
    Hallo Nils, echt super Idee!
  • Nils Völker plus 1 year ago
    Hey Ilona, dankeschön!
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  • Alexander Schilling 1 year ago
    hey nils, das wirkt so was von lebendig. unglaublich! fühle mich ans spielen mit einer seeanemone erinnert. auch wenn ichs gerne mal live auspriobieren würe, finde ich deine arbeit auch als movie schon klasse!
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  • Nils Völker plus 1 year ago
    Thanks to everybody for the very nice feedback
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  • rayv 1 year ago
    Beautiful idea, well done. truly inspiring !
    Thanks !
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  • bucle 1 year ago
    breathtaking!
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  • Cheryl De Ville 1 year ago
    Really fascinating. I find my breathing syncing up to the bags' "breath"! This could possibly have good therapeutic applications.
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  • Marina Mikeladze 1 year ago
    super cool!!!
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  • Guillermina Pico 1 year ago
    this is so beautifull <3 congratulations
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  • sylvain solaro 1 year ago
    It's life!
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  • Frans Huisman 1 year ago
    Very beautiful, also in close up. Did you consider building a special space for this device?
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  • born digital 1 year ago
    nice work!
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  • nakedboyz video 9 months ago
    beautiful!!! <3


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  • Foureye 8 months ago
    Saugeil!
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  • Tachila Botswana 8 months ago
    Love this thanks
    R
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  • Daniel Jay Bertner 7 months ago
    what type of mechanism are you using to inflate/deflate the bags? pneumatics?
  • Nils Völker plus 7 months ago
    I'm using computer cooling fans. Two for each bag, one to inflate and one to deflate.
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  • victor wortmann 7 months ago
    im never tired to watch it. just love it.
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  • Graham Barker 6 months ago
    That is simply beautiful.
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  • gabriela pino 3 months ago
    i am starting to learn something about arduino, thanks for share
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