MOTO Ne+
A data installation examining the concept of curiosity - what is motivating me
to be an investigative and exploratory person.
to be an investigative and exploratory person.
MOTO NE+ is a three dimensional data installation. This ephemeral, artistic, and introspective work visualizes psychological and subjective data underlying our motivation to be curious.
Motivation determines our actions and behavior. Even so, many people do not know the exact motives determining their actions. Who are we and what makes us tick?
This question pushed me to carry out an extensive investigation, data recording and analysis that relates to my own motivation, motives, and observable motivational hierarchies.
The 16 Basic Desires Theory of motivation by psychologist Steven Reiss formed the theoretical foundation guiding the analysis and visualization of my personal, principal motive: Curiosity.
This question pushed me to carry out an extensive investigation, data recording and analysis that relates to my own motivation, motives, and observable motivational hierarchies.
The 16 Basic Desires Theory of motivation by psychologist Steven Reiss formed the theoretical foundation guiding the analysis and visualization of my personal, principal motive: Curiosity.
Curiosity and inquisitiveness materialize as the need to learn, think, create, explore, analyze, to search. In short: To reach higher levels, a better form, or even an ideal. The harder to reach and more obscure desires tend to be of greater interest and incite our motivation to discover to a greater extent than the attainable and obvious. This includes the concepts of risk and chance – the uncertainty of the outcome of our actions.
The installation with its floating methacrylate spheres does not only visualize the uncertain nature of the process of exploration, but also the light and transparency of inspiration, ideas, thought, and knowledge.
The installation with its floating methacrylate spheres does not only visualize the uncertain nature of the process of exploration, but also the light and transparency of inspiration, ideas, thought, and knowledge.
The installation consists of 198 methacrylate spheres that represent the data collected six times daily at a predetermined four-hour-interval over the course of three days along eleven criteria, such as ideas, thought, inspiration, curiosity, et cetera. The different intensities of each criterion are visualized by the transparency and position of each of the suspended spheres. Low intensity levels are represented by transparent spheres. As the intensity of the observation point increases, the respective sphere is less transparent and placed in a more elevated position.
The installation is designed to be an interactive info-experience. The spectator is encouraged to engage with the installation by means of a raffle, offering an invitation to open one of the spheres and discover more information about both the visualization and the exact underlying data describing my own curiosity.
