Kinetic sculpture with magnetic system. Aluminum skeleton with double pendulum system interacting with magnetic field, smooth transfer of iron dust.
BASIC INFORMATION
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
CONTEXT AND ORIGIN
ARTWORK CONCEPT
EXHIBITIONS
CONNECTIONS
Series
Speculative Topographies
ID
2018-ST-GEO-01
Date of origin
31.5.2018
Technique
Kinetic sculpture with magnetic system
Dimensions
5000 × 1000 × 300 mm
Duration
Continuous, limited by entropic exhaustion of material resource
Software
Analog computing system. Gravitational forces and magnetic attraction function as a physical algorithm controlling the trajectory of a metabolic system.
Hardware
Laser-cut aluminum (skeleton), neodymium magnets, glass reservoir, magnetite (natural source of magnetic field), iron particles/dust, articulated mechanics.
Data source
Physical: Local anomalies of the magnetic field of natural magnetite from Říp table mountain (Tertiary volcanic memory).
Interaction
Autopoietic, material. Interaction occurs primarily between the mineral and the machine mechanism.
Location of origin
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague / Prague / Czech Republic
Georeplikátor: Autopoietic extension of geological memory
Date
Exhibition
31.5.2018
Summer studio exams — AVU, Prague
11.3.2020
Resonare De Audire Fluctus — Studio PRÁM, Prague
15.5.2026
Říp: context and present — Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem
Series
Related works
Gravity Topographies
Signum Supra (2016) — magnetic fluid and neodymium magnets — predecessor in the Gravity Topographies series
Speculative Topographies
Inter Solaris (2019) — analog recording of physical forces — predecessor
CONCEPT
Georeplikátor functions as a perceptual apparatus revealing the agency of matter. Through non-human labor of pendulums and transfer of iron dust, it responds to the magnetic field of Tertiary magnetite from Říp mountain. It creates an entropic indexical trace and techno-fossil that materializes hidden geological forces.
The work is fully analog: gravity and magnetism function as a physical algorithm — without code, without digital interface. The computation is performed by matter itself.
