This painting machine responds to light levels -- creating red splatters when the light is brighter, and yellow when the light is not so bright. The mechanism is designed to "whap" the screen to knock the paint onto the paper. If it is bright, the motor will hit one side of the screen, and when the light dims (the sun goes behind a cloud) it will reverse direction, go a bit further, then continue "whapping" the screen on the other side.

Today Keith and I went over how to program the cricket. The more time I spend with it the more potential I see-especially with site specific work. I'm excited to experiment with the sounds,and changes in temperature and light of the west coast of Ireland as material. I'm also looking forward to showing Rian and our students at the Burren College of Art how to use them.

For the past 12 months we have been working with various local artists and tools to explore light in conjunction with a Light Exhibit here at the Science Museum of MN. Some of the materials we explored were LEDs, transparent and reflective recycled materials, conductive tape and thread, and more.