Installation, 60×60×30 cm
This compact, wall‑mountable machine mechanically separates and weighs individual pea seeds on a fine scale. Seeds falling outside predefined weight classes are rejected; the rest are sorted into dedicated containers.
As more seeds pass through, the distribution of peas in the glass tubes gradually forms a bell curve—turning the sorter into a live statistical display. Here, the material world is mapped onto digital data, which in turn reshapes physical order. But where to draw the lines, and what happens at the threshold and in the gaps?
The “EZ Weight Sorter MINI” is part of the ERBSENZÄHLER (EN: bean counter; lit.: pea counter) project which explores the increasing quantification of life through mathematical-technical procedures and systems – from counting and sorting to statistics, to computer-aided processes – and the worldview that goes along with it.
