Galo Moncayo

Untitled (drawing machine)

Two arcs, each with many magnets, sweep from side to side. As the arcs move, their magnetic fields move the metal arms that hold each drawing implement. The arms bounce inside frames creating etching-like drawings. 

Sin título (máquina de dibujo)

Dos arcos, cada uno con varios magnetos, se balancean de lado a lado gracias a sus campos magnéticos que a su vez, impulsan los brazos de metal que sostienen cada implemento de dibujo. Los brazos se desplazan dentro de un perímetro cuadrado creando dibujos, tipo bocetos.

Freestyle wandering machine

research project with Dominik Strzelec

Driven by its immediate surrounding, little by little, the machine deposits material while sensing and moving within its territory. Traces left by its passing alter the landscape it operates within, step by step. Instant decisions solidify, aggregate and therefore shift or constrain its possible future trajectories.

Moving away from industrial precision towards almost primitive  - still digitally mediated  - ways of constructing and articulating the space, poses a question whether material traces of networked culture have to be highly technological. Matter, whether tangible or virtual, becomes a medium of record. Since there is no other blueprint than the behavior itself, resulting shapes gain their specificity from tool resolution, medium fidelity and saturation of generative processes, leaving them as traces. 

http://echoechonoisenoise.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/freestyle-wandering-maschine/

So far I do not know

In this installation of over 20 speakers, each speaker is filled with pigment that is slowly forced up on the speaker walls by sound waves emitted by the speaker and caused by a programmed control board. Unlike Moncayo’s other works that create instantaneously perceptible results, the pigment in the speakers travels in micro-movements, over time creating anthill-like trails up the speaker walls. 

So far I do not know

En esta instalación, de más de 20 bocinas, el artista ha depositado pigmentos que lentamente son impulsados por ondas de sonido a través de las paredes de las bocinas. Dichas ondas se originan en una superficie de control, programada. A diferencia de otros trabajos de Moncayo, que ofrecen resultados palpables y al instante, aquí los pigmentos en las bocinas se desplazan en micro-movimientos que al paso del tiempo crean pequeños caminos, similares a los que forman las hormigas.

Worlds apart

in collaboration with Andy Holtin

Andy Holtin and Galo Moncayo, working together as CausalityLabs, create works that explore the nature of the world through a kind of mechanical theater with humor and mimicry. Their collective works dig into materials and events to get at our notions of meaning, sequence, and cause and effect.

Brisa

A handcrafted windmill is installed in one area of the space; thirty feet away, plastic boats stand at varying heights. The windmill and boats are connected electronically, though the wires are concealed. The viewer blows into the windmill at one end of the space. At the other end, the boats sway in the “wind” created by the viewer’s breath—quickly at first with the first burst of breath and more slowly as the windmill slows down. 

View

in collaboration with Andy Holtin

Andy Holtin and Galo Moncayo, working together as CausalityLabs, create works that explore the nature of the world through a kind of mechanical theater with humor and mimicry. Their collective works dig into materials and events to get at our notions of meaning, sequence, and cause and effect.

Lejos

in collaboration with Zuzana Ernst

Blurry trees ahead 

Far away from my body 

Out into distance            

         (Nathan Rubio)

We all need a creation myth

in collaboration with Andy Holtin

Andy Holtin and Galo Moncayo, working together as CausalityLabs, create works that explore the nature of the world through a kind of mechanical theater with humor and mimicry. Their collective works dig into materials and events to get at our notions of meaning, sequence, and cause and effect.