Aliki Van Der Krujis
(1984)
Dutch designer, artist and researcher based in the Hague. She is a Master of Applied Arts from the Sandberg Instituut of Amsterdam. She has a background in graphic and fashion design with an exploration of how different materials, from ceramics to textiles, can be a means of communication.
Her working method bases on process and contextual research. In her works people can sense the deep interest of geography what she has. As a result, she has collaborated with many scientists, companies and institutes that have been researching for instance with meteorology, pedology and oceanography.
website: www.alikivanderkruijs.com
Photo by Lonneke van der Palen © Interview series PROOFFLab Magazine curated by Studio Makkink&Bey
Jos Klarenbeek
(1988)
Designer and researcher based in Netherlands. In 2015, he graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven, the department ‘Man and Public Space’. He has also graduated in mathematics from the University of Amsterdam in 2010.
His enthusiasm is enabling access to and translating complex data and he attempts to make art that brings scientific research to the wider public. He tries to expand the field of data visualization and materialization by working on the border between design and scientific research. He develops tools that enable linking satellite data to a loom or a CNC machine for example.
website: josklarenbeek.nl
Photo from http://josklarenbeek.nl/
Chosen Works
Kadans
Kadans is Dutch for ‘cadence’ which means the rhythm of the sea, but also the rhythm of the loom motion. Dutch designers’ work expresses how the motion of the sea can be a direct source for an ever-changing weaving pattern.
I had an honor to discuss with Aliki Van Der Krujis and she told me, that Kadans attempts to break the limit of a repeat that industrial textile development has. They wondered that they might break through this by connecting weaving with source that could provide ever-changing input for a pattern. Buoys and platforms offshore the coast on the height of Den Helder, Netherlands, measure constantly changing conditions such as wave height, wave period and wind direction and this data direct forward to loom. Van Der Krujis has also intuition that she wanted to 'weave water' soon after that she met Jos Klaranbeek.
Kadans is a magnificent instance of two artists’ collaboration where combines Van Der Krujis’ knowledge of materials and Klarenbeek’s mathematic skills and specialization in the software. Shared interest to nature, statistics and exploratory art acted as an impulse for them to combine forces.
Photos: Johan Nieuwehuize, http://www.alikivanderkruijs.com
Scientific background
Kadans illustrating the motions of waves. Van Der Krujis and Klaranbeek use real-time wave information from the Dutch 'Rijkswaterstaat'. In a platform offshore the coast on the height of Den Helder there are several points where data is generated. Klarenbeek has developed a software that links wave data to the loom together with studio RNDN.
The velocity of idealized traveling waves on the ocean is dependent on wavelength and shallow enough depths, it also depends upon the depth of the water. Any such simplified treatment of ocean waves is going to be inadequate to describe the complexity of the subject. There is no single model that applies to all cases. I am going to present the simplest wave equations that exist.
It will be presumed that ocean waves obey the basic wave relationship c=fλ , where c is traditionally used for the wave speed, f is frequency and λ is wavelength. We can get the period cause f=1/T so the original equation shapes itself into form c=λ/T.
Waiving form is possible to draw when there are enough parameters or in other words all values of the equation are known. With the right equipment all this data could be collected and used. I founded one open data source called Tidemap where anyone can get the wave data all over the Earth, for example. However, reading of the files requires knowledge of the programs that I don’t have.
Methods
I tested methods by making a couple different wave pattern with small loom. The first represent intersecting waves and the other one is the wave form in 3D.
My first idea was to make one ”perfect” wave with loom and count it’s equation but after several attempts I had to give up. The idea requires development and time.
Keywords
Keywords
1. the act or process of collaborating.
2. a product resulting from collaboration:
This dictionary is a collaboration of many minds.
//wave
1. a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of a moving ridge or swell.
2. any surging or progressing movement or part resembling a wave of the sea: a wave of the pulse.
//loom
1. a hand-operated or power-driven apparatus for weaving fabrics, containing harnesses, lay, reed, shuttles, treadles, etc.
2. the art or the process of weaving.
3. the part of an oar between the blade and the handle.
//contextual
1. of, relating to, or depending on the context.
References and links
Aliki Van Der Kruijs: www.alikivanderkruijs.com > about
Jos Klarenbeek: www.designacademy.nl > research > places and traces > people
https://stimuleringsfonds.nl/en/grants_issued/jos_klarenbeek/
Kadans: www.alikivanderkruijs.com > projects > kadans
Email conversation with Aliki Van der Krujis (28.8.2019)
http://www.satellietgroep.nl/climate_as_artifact/3/aliki_van_der_kruijs__jos_klarenbeek_kadans
Scientific background:
https://www.khanacademy.org/science/physics/mechanical-waves-and-sound/mechanical-waves/v/wave-equation
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Waves/watwav2.html