Motorised Nintendo DS
Mechanical switch, Motor, Custom Software, Text and Aluminium rail

Text written by Beth Jackson as a collaboration

Exhibitions

First developed for New TV, Brisbane, Australia, Sep 2006 (Supported by the Australia Council)

Arte Nuevo Interactiva 07,
Mérida Biennale, Yucatán, México, Jun 2007
(Top screen text translated to Spanish by Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet)

I Saw Two Things Happening - Detail

I Saw Two Things Happening

Tim Plaisted 2006, 2007

The work plays a short text about two people meeting, coming together and then parting. The words scroll slowly back and forth horizontally across the two screens of a Nintendo DS. At the same pace, the Nintendo DS moves slowly along a metal track mounted on the wall, gradually revealing the scrolling text on its screens.

To read the full text, the viewer must follow the DS as it moves along the wall. The work therefore is both the installation of the text on the motorised DS and the experience of watching people move in to read and follow the device and part again.

The original text was written by Beth Jackson as a collaboration. For the 2007 Mérida Biennale showing, the text on the top screen was translated into Spanish by the exhibition's curator, Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet.

The work was originally developed for the New TV exhibition which was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Video

Installation video from New TV exhibition, Brisbane, Australia, 2006

Images

Detail shot showing Nintendo DS with poem text Installation shot at Interactiva Biennale

Detail: I Saw Two Things Happening - "arrive at" / "attention"

Installation shot, Interactiva Biennale 2007

Credits

I Saw Two Things Happening
Tim Plaisted 2006, 2007
Text written by Beth Jackson as a collaboration
Translated to Spanish by Raúl Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet