{"id":1786,"date":"2008-10-01T03:18:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltono.com\/?page_id=1786"},"modified":"2016-03-20T17:35:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:35:02","slug":"el-autotono","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eltono.com\/en\/projects\/el-autotono\/","title":{"rendered":"El Autotono"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico<\/strong>
\nOctober – November 2008<\/p>\n

Project produced with the great help of Nrmal<\/a>
\nIt was first presented during the Mutek Festival in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

The Autotono is a mobile installation built in order to explore how people can interact with an artwork in a public space. My idea was to create a kind of puzzle with 3 designs mixed-up and observe how the people can change them trying to find the original designs (or not!). What I was interested in was not to see people completing the puzzle but to register all the intermediate compositions that were created without my control during the process. My idea with this experiment was essentially to observe and learn.<\/p>\n

I was interested in observing the results of the Autotono in different situations, so we build it with wheels to be able to move it easily. We installed it, in busy streets, touristic squares, in parties, in a design fair, in a park, in a school…<\/p>\n

The name “Autotono” states for automobile (“un auto” is “a car” in Spanish) and automatic (automaticly created compositions, without the intervention of the artist).<\/p>\n

Thanks a lot to Ofimodul<\/a> for letting us use their spare wood, their installation and for the great help of their workers. Pictures by Rafa, Lalo, Nrmal and Eltono.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Direct links to the picture galleries:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 – Building pictures<\/a>
\n2 – Mexico City pictures<\/a>
\n3 – Monterrey pictures<\/a>
\n4 – States pictures <\/a>
\n5 – Simulation video <\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>Building the Autotono:<\/strong><\/h2>\n