Sisyphus is an interactive video mapping installation about the perpetual effort to achievement. Sisyphus gives form to the human condition through an interactive game where the user can animate the scene as long as he can perceive and dominate time. In Greek mythology Sisyphus (Sisyphos) was a king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was punished for chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever. The interaction interface consists of a laser cut mechanical gear system. The gear’s movement controls Sisyphus climbing a 3d printed mountain made out of 44 unique pieces that interlock one with the other like a puzzle. The gear’s movement is tracked using a sensor that sends the data via wifi to the Sisyphus Application made in Unity 3D.
In Greek mythology Sisyphus (Sisyphos) was a king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was punished for chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever. According to the solar theory, King Sisyphus is the disk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west. Other scholars regard him as a personification of waves rising and falling, or of the treacherous sea.
The installation
The interaction interface consists of a laser cut mechanical gear system, which the audience interacts with by rotating them.The gear’s movement controls Sisyphus going up a 3d printed mountain made out of 44 unique pieces that interlock one with the other like a puzzle. The gear’s movement is tracked using accelerometer data received by the Sisyphus Stone Application in openFrameworks and Unity 3D.
Artists in residency
Hannes Andersson
Ovidiu Cincheza
Anastasia Pistofidou
Collaborators
Matteo Guarnaccia
Santi Fuentemilla
Special Thanks
Veronica Betancur
Helene Merhand
Sisyphus Stone is an artistic installation that is presented in various festival through the European Art Science and Technology Network, where IAAC FAB LAB BARCELONA are participating as partners with workshops, conferences and artistic residencies merging the artistic and craftsmen world with digital fabrication, interaction and design.
VIDEO Making of
Some of the prints were printed with a YARR, a big 3d printer made at Lisbon by our local tutor of Fab Academy, Ferdinand Meyer with Leds & Chips
