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…Oh My!
Monday, April 12th, 2010a few words on Scheduled for Deletion
Monday, May 5th, 2008For over a year the artist Daniel Huyberts has been collecting plastic bags, both his own and those graciously donated to him. In the process of experimenting with fusing plastic bags, he noticed the untaped sonic potential of the material. The completed project is a large drum surface where the interactors touch is amplified and processed.
The plastic bag is a troublesome little object, as this piece proposes it is Scheduled for Deletion. Cities (and some countries) around the world have put taxes or completely banned the use of plastic bags outright, or switched to biodegrable corn plastics. These actions can only go so far. Recycling programs run by stores only work if patrons return their bags to those stores. As such it’s very important for the average consumer to switch to reusable bags, weather they be plastic or fabric, recycled, or hand made. It’s not that hard to keep a collection of bags in your car, or in your purse, backpack or (man)bag. When asked “Paper or Plastic,” you can respond, “No, thanks, I brought my own!”
As Promised…
Monday, May 5th, 2008Both of these images are ©Daniel Huyberts 2008
Above image is of the working prototype of Scheduled for Deletion.
And here’s a tiny picture of the finished frame.
Coming soon sound sample.
I Make Stuff From Plastic Bags
Thursday, February 21st, 2008and lots of other people do to. I’m beggining to document my thesis, as I’m doing it now and want to begin with were I first came across fusing plastic bags, which was here at Etsy labs, many thanks to
Later, I found this at treehugger, which is a great look at other artists using P.B.F., by the way that’s what I call it cause I love acronyms somebody probably thought of it first, I’m not saying I made it up, I don’t want the credit, I just like the name.
Also there’s this Instructable which isn’t bad, theres others but this one I saw first.
For those who don’t know, but I assume if your reading this you know me, but really I don’t know, who knows other people might end up reading this. I’ve been working with P.B.F. for about six months now and have and will be making more bags, for shopping/purses, laptop sleeves, and small zippered bags of various sizes (ie pencil cases and makeup bags), as well as plastic bag fabric stretched like a canvas as an art object. For my thesis I’m exploring the sonic qualities of stretched P.B.F. by making large instillations, with the material stretched over a wooden structure. The user interacts by moving through the space, of which all the walls and floor will be miced with contact mics. More explanation will follow, along with pictures soon.