Esacono
Giovanni Anceschi with Serena Cangiano and Davide Fornari
Interactive device, ca. 70×70×70 cm, plywood, motors, electrical wire, Arduino shields, glue, rods, power supply
CC BY NC SA www.github.com/reprogrammed-art/esacono/

Exhibitions
Reprogrammed Art, Istituto Svizzero, Milan, March 6–28, 2015.
Short Cuts, Centre PasquArt, Biel, April 19 – June 14, 2015.

Esacono is the translation of a concept that generated the series Strutturazioni cilindriche virtuali by Giovanni Anceschi (1963-1966). The concept is described in issue no. 22 of the magazine “il verri”, but was never produced due to the limits posed by the technology of the period.
It is a cube suspended by one corner which has six motors embedded into each side. The motors drive two rotating rods that draw six truncated cone shapes in space, creating virtual volumes. The speed varies from motor to motor, and as a consequence so does the effect of the six shapes drawn in the air on the sides of the hanging cube.