“Prosperity” by Samuel St-Aubin
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- Prosperity
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Prosperity (stand-alone system)
Prosperity is an autonomous device that manipulates grains of rice. A clamp moves from one surface to another, picking up randomly placed grains and then depositing them in an orderly manner on a second surface. This process aligns them while preserving their initial orientation. The work highlights the exchanges between the machine and the material, which imposes its constraints on the machine, which must continually repeat the sequences of analysis and movement.
