Mastodon Feed: Post

Mastodon Feed

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

Here's "Subatomic," an artwork about the search for something impossibly tiny.

It's one of the artworks from my show, "Desperate Remedy/Little Ones," focusing on the search for neutrinos at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a particle physics lab ~1.5km / 4850ft underground in a former gold mine; I am their artist-in-residence for the year.

Perched on a square pedestal is a thin panel of brushed aluminum. It has an articulated arm mounted to it, which is holding a magnifying glass. The glass offers a peek at a tiny, precarious, glowing device.
This closer view shows a little more of the device, which has a tiny screen (~0.49in / 12mm diagonal viewable area; 64x32 pixels) reading a partial message: "SMALL? P..." It is attached to a small microcontroller with a motion sensor. The magnifying glass looms around the edges of the frame.
A more direct view through the magnifying glass shows the chunky pixels more clearly, currently reading, "A WAY OF..."