Tech Notes
Steel Ice & Stone tech
The sound units for Steel Ice & Stone were driven by Arduino microcontrollers wired to sensors. A hub was attached to the back of the suspended light panels that connected the speaker, the sensor and the microcontroller to electrical power through an ascending wire.
The images were made on 4x5 transparency film. The original scans were used to digitally expose c-print paper using Lambda technology. The prints were mounted on linen and stretched on wooden stretchers and suspended. See image above.
3-D printing changed everything. Previously, back-lit images were housed in a thick, heavy box of flourescent light tubes. Now, prisms cut in the back wall of the light unit projected LED lights across the width of the panel, at the time only made in shops in China.
See My Voice Tech
The imges for See My Voice were photographed on black-and-white PanX film to enlarge well while capturing the face details. The negatives were stripped with the text into rubylith film and made into 8x10 negatives which were exposed analog onto fiber-based paper and processed.
