This series of drawings on paper explores equivocation using a digital pen plotter. The plotter is capable of rendering very precise images on predetermined paths, with choice of surface and implement introducing the most noise in the final result. In these experiments, however, the plotter’s motors are programmed in real time, leveraging the machine’s unequivocal precision to expose the noise present in the transmission of data to digital movement. The drawings are spatial documents of temporal processes, while the sound magnifies the physicality of the machine’s maneuvers in the installation space.

In some experiments, a simple process is continuously executed without regard for the plotter’s limitations, the pen sometimes moving erratically as the motors struggle to comply with the impossible speeds dictated by the algorithm. In others, the drawing board’s vibrations are captured with piezo microphones and its motors’ electromagnetic fields with telephone taps, attempting to convert these audio signals to position data and back again in iterative cycles. The circuit between “virtual” and “actual” is complicated by feedback – not to achieve equilibrium, but to materialize uncertainty in the translation between different machine epistemologies.