{"id":2496,"date":"2018-10-31T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?page_id=2496"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:36:26","slug":"oriel-factory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/oriel-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Oriel Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition in Oriel Mostyn, Newtown, Powys UK, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press release:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Oriel Factory, Granjon presents a radical new take on production lines. Using yesterday\u2019s electronic kit \u2013 defunct computers, CD \/ DVD players, radios and speakers \u2013 as the raw material, Granjon has commandeered an army of volunteers \u2013 the \u2018Oriel Factory workers\u2019 \u2013 to help him break apart these mountains of \u2018dead tech\u2019. These are then redesigned and re-constructed as programmed artefacts for the gallery, with the help of digital fabrication tools such as a 3D printer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rTWT3ge4NFY?rel=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Gallery is transformed into a busy hive of industry, where disembowelled computers and printers are reborn as the robotic prototypes of tomorrow. In the midst of this feverish activity a family of robots roams the galleries: a home robot, the <a href=\"http:\/\/zprod.org\/PG\/machines\/bootLoader.htm\">Big Bootlaoder<\/a> and several smaller <a href=\"http:\/\/zprod.org\/PG\/machines\/thingy.htm\">Thingy<\/a> robots trundle backwards and forwards, stopping only when their energy reserves run down. Their power supply is a \u2018forest\u2019 of battery feeding stations connected to renewable energy sources \u2013 solar panels on the Gallery\u2019s roof and old bicycles recycled as human-powered dynamos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition in Oriel Mostyn, Newtown, Powys UK, 2011. &nbsp; Press release: &nbsp; In Oriel Factory, Granjon presents a radical new take on production lines. Using yesterday\u2019s electronic kit \u2013 defunct computers, CD \/ DVD players, radios and speakers \u2013 as the raw material, Granjon has commandeered an army of volunteers \u2013 the \u2018Oriel Factory workers\u2019 \u2013 to help him break<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2496\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}