{"id":1246,"date":"2017-12-10T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2022-11-19T22:04:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:04:14","slug":"infinite-destruction-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/infinite-destruction-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Infinite Destruction Machine (beta)<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<h5>Machine that infinitely builds and destroys sandcastles<\/h5>\n<h6>Created in the course &#8222;Digital Artifactual Objections&#8220;<br \/>\nSupervised by Prof. Dennis Paul<\/h6>\n<p>The &#8222;Infinite Destruction Machine&#8220; takes over the tedious task of building and destroying a sand castle over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>Destruction is connoted negatively as the bad opposite of creation. Nevertheless it feels oddly satisfying, when buildings get demolished, iPhone are blended or soap bubbles burst: Destruction gives us an immediate feeling of power.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Infinite Destruction Machine (beta)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/250458812?h=5dfff9e76e&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the installation, sandcastles are used as a metaphor and archetypal object that triggers memories about this joy of destruction. After a castle has been build, the platform on which it is standing starts to vibrate, and over time the castle disintegrates. Afterwards a new castle is build from the same sand, and the process begins again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Infinite-Destruction-Machine_SMALL_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1249\" src=\"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Infinite-Destruction-Machine_SMALL_03-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Infinite-Destruction-Machine_SMALL_03\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Infinite-Destruction-Machine_SMALL_03-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Infinite-Destruction-Machine_SMALL_03-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Infinite-Destruction-Machine_SMALL_03-380x285.jpg 380w, https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Infinite-Destruction-Machine_SMALL_03-120x90.jpg 120w, 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destroying a sand castle over and over again.\nDestruction is connoted negatively as the bad opposite of creation. Nevertheless it feels oddly satisfying, when buildings get demolished, iPhone are blended or soap bubbles burst: Destruction gives us an immediate feeling of power.\n\nIn the installation, sandcastles are used as a metaphor and","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,7,6,4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorenzpotthast.de\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}