{"id":69,"date":"2012-04-01T13:34:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T17:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=69"},"modified":"2022-04-04T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T14:54:30","slug":"the-binary-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/the-binary-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Binary Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LillianWhen it comes to the Senior Individualized Project, sculptor Daedalian Derks \u201912<\/strong> thinks BIG\u2014as in the kind of installation measured by \u201cchain\u201d (a forestry metric of 66 and one-half feet), as in a three-dimensional sculpture stronger than the urge to procreate. No kidding!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Binary Strip,\u201d the fourth and largest sculpture in Derks\u2019 SIP quartet (the other works are called \u201cThe Purple Pieces,\u201d \u201cPrimary Shapes Weather Vane,\u201d and \u201cFractal Reflections\u201d), was installed for one week only at the Lillian Anderson Arboretum<\/a> \u201cMagnificent Pines\u201d trail (see photo). Any longer and it might have affected spring mating rituals of local fauna (who says art\u2019s not stronger than sex?). The piece includes 228 freely spinning black-and-white square panels made from aluminum roofing flashing and grouped into sections of eight, like the binary language in computer science. Conceived at first as a way to \u201csee the wind,\u201d the project evolved into a deeper exploration of the way art interacts with a specific natural setting.<\/p>\n

Said Derks (an art-major- classics-minor convert from a history-and-art double major from, originally, a biology major): \u201cI wanted to install it as a flat plane, but the swaying of the pines would have destroyed anything other than a catenary,\u201d a long architectural curve that, in the case of \u201cThe Binary Strip,\u201d changes its arc as the trees move. What an interesting way to learn architecture from the natural world! (Derks one day hopes to do graduate work in a program that combines art, culture, technology, and architecture.)<\/p>\n

Still, for many, one week was too short to see the piece. If you missed it at the Arb, you can see it at the Light Fine Arts Building on Thursday, April 26, at 4 P.M. when Derks will share his entire SIP sculpture project during an artist presentation open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the Senior Individualized Project, sculptor Daedalian Derks \u201912 thinks BIG\u2014as in the kind of installation measured by \u201cchain\u201d (a forestry metric of 66 and one-half feet), as in a three-dimensional sculpture stronger than the urge to procreate. No kidding! \u201cThe Binary Strip,\u201d the fourth and largest sculpture in Derks\u2019 SIP quartet (the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[42,161,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students","tag-arts","tag-senior-integrated-project","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"\r\nThe Binary Strip - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When it comes to the Senior Individualized Project, sculptor Daedalian Derks \u201912 thinks BIG\u2014as in the kind of installation measured by \u201cchain\u201d\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/the-binary-strip\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Binary Strip - 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No kidding!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Binary Strip,\u201d the fourth and largest sculpture in Derks\u2019 SIP quartet (the other works are called \u201cThe Purple Pieces,\u201d \u201cPrimary Shapes Weather Vane,\u201d and \u201cFractal Reflections\u201d), was installed for one week only at the <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/arboretum\/\">Lillian Anderson Arboretum<\/a> \u201cMagnificent Pines\u201d trail (see photo). Any longer and it might have affected spring mating rituals of local fauna (who says art\u2019s not stronger than sex?). The piece includes 228 freely spinning black-and-white square panels made from aluminum roofing flashing and grouped into sections of eight, like the binary language in computer science. Conceived at first as a way to \u201csee the wind,\u201d the project evolved into a deeper exploration of the way art interacts with a specific natural setting.<\/p>\n<p>Said Derks (an art-major- classics-minor convert from a history-and-art double major from, originally, a biology major): \u201cI wanted to install it as a flat plane, but the swaying of the pines would have destroyed anything other than a catenary,\u201d a long architectural curve that, in the case of \u201cThe Binary Strip,\u201d changes its arc as the trees move. What an interesting way to learn architecture from the natural world! (Derks one day hopes to do graduate work in a program that combines art, culture, technology, and architecture.)<\/p>\n<p>Still, for many, one week was too short to see the piece. If you missed it at the Arb, you can see it at the Light Fine Arts Building on Thursday, April 26, at 4 P.M. when Derks will share his entire SIP sculpture project during an artist presentation open to the public.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18019,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/18019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}