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Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico
October – November 2008
Project produced with the great help of Nrmal
It was first presented during the Mutek Festival in Mexico City.
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.
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…
The name “Autotono” states for automobile (“un auto” is “a car” in Spanish) and automatic (automaticly created compositions, without the intervention of the artist).
Thanks a lot to Ofimodul for letting us use their spare wood, their installation and for the great help of their workers. Pictures by Rafa, Lalo, Nrmal and Eltono.
Direct links to the picture galleries:
1 – Building pictures
2 – Mexico City pictures
3 – Monterrey pictures
4 – States pictures
5 – Simulation video
Building the Autotono:
The Autotono in Mexico City, during the Mutek festival:
The Autotono in Monterrey:
The different states the Autotono passed through:
Simulation video:
Check that small interview from the Design Week Monterrey (in Spanish).