Status: ONGOING PROJECT in 2022 exhibited at Cyfest 14 Yerevan

openEgg (oE) — (All is well in a falling world) • b022

An egg as an organic vessel in which a life develops until the animal hatches from the egg.

openEgg as a collaborative (machine) ‘learning’ Babylonian vessel, a condition telling sculpture in which local cultural organic products, non-electronic and electronic objects and symbols are brought together into a ‘remix’ still life. A ‘remix’ and (re)presentation of these cultures referring to the gathering and ‘remixing’ of cultures through displacement of peoples.

openEgg as a 3D-printed wire-frame vessel where contributors (artists,organizers and public) can (click) insert unprepared food, tissues, basic electronic parts, simple colour triangles, …,into the appropriate still open triangle to ‘fertilize/foster/ferment’ it. The inserted triangles will ‘close’ the wire-frame egg one by one until it is a kind of ‘closed’ biotope, an organic vessel.

Using sensors in the sculpture, openEgg monitors the condition of the cultural objects within itself and tells the obtained data via Text To Speech. A second voice tells machine-learning-generated stories about the egg’s condition, cultural objects and history within its location.

The local public, organizers and artists will be invited to create their openEgg triangle in the form of a collaboration. Some triangles will already be filled in by me as necessary supporting parts for the main system, sensors and connections. Participants are free how they fill in their triangles, but it must fit in one of the free triangle spaces and have some kind of relation to the theme, place, country being exhibited.

An egg as the beginning of a form of life that partly begins to ferment (eat) when fermenting triangles are added by those who cooperate and/or public. An egg that is first open (beginning) and then becomes more closed (end) by the public, society, like a child that is born ‘open’ (free) in the beginning and is ‘sculpted’ to become less ‘open’ (free) to integrate into that society.

A (Babylonian) container where local cultural products, objects and symbols are brought together to create a ‘remix’ still life, a vanitas collection, of these cultural items. A ‘remix’ and (re)presentation of this culture and cultures referring to the collection and ‘remix’ of cultures through the movement and relocation of peoples.

A world-egg as a mythological ‘sculpture’ found in the cosmogonies of many cultures.

The world egg, cosmic egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the cosmogonies of many cultures that is present in Proto-Indo-European culture and other cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by “hatching” from the egg, sometimes lain on the primordial waters of the Earth.

_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_egg

The egg as representation also chosen because of the tradition of egg decoration, pysanky in Slavic cultures that originated in pagan times, with pagan symbolism and many different ‘egg writing’ technics developed over the time. Using their ‘egg writing’, they also drew ‘wireframe’-like structures on the eggs.

As long as the egg writing custom continues, the world will exist. If, for any reason, this custom is abandoned, evil—in the shape of a horrible serpent who is forever chained to a cliff—will overrun the world.

_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_egg

Because every end implies a new beginning, the
openEgg lives on, like an organic vessel, and is the
beginning of the ‘open’ series.

Name: openEgg (oE) — (All is well in a falling world) b022
Created date: 2021 - 2022
Caption: բացՁու - (Ամեն ինչ լավ է խորտակվող աշխարհում) — b022
Kind: interactive / collaborative sculpture
Keywords: open, world, egg, organic, vessel, fertilize, foster, ferment, interactive, collaborative, 3D, print, triangle, wire-frame, sculpture, electronics, micro-computer, AI, Text To Speech, machine learning
Content Creator: human, world, maths, 3D print, public, machine learning, data, unprepared, food, tissues, electronics, micro-computer
Used dates: October, 11–25 at Cyfest 14 Yerevan
Hyperlinks: www.cyberfest.ru/hayart-cultural-center-exhibition