Ectoplasmatic Library

Project Team: Ricardo de Ostos, Nannette Jackowski, Samantha Lee
Interactive Design: Marilena Skavara

Videos/Images: Samantha Lee

As an avatar of human activity the Ectoplasmatic Library is an attempt to record the ever changing information that measures our affiliations to the world. It manifests an ecology that shifts between protein and electricity. It is biology and mechanics; essential and useless. In this urbanity of me, recording defines my map of consumption. In this universe tracking, barcodes and data emerge in the space. That space is the ecology of us, a place that erupts when busy and silences when there is only me.

As a survey apparatus the installation translates usage of space into measurements. The interaction between designed space and its use is stored and recorded.  During the two weeks the space will be re-measured: obese mechanisms add kilograms, incandescent bio-organisms burning by Fahrenheit waves, slow electric creatures blossom into spasms of shock. The ecology of things and visitors (us?) shifts – being constantly reconfigured, re-born, fed back. The created space is our new definition of storage. It pulsates and surveys the complexity of us transiting through our delirious and loved objects. The shifting storage’s measures (time/colour/temperature/mass/length) generate our environment. The Ectoplasmatic Library is a neo-nature of electronics, biology and simple creatures transiting an ever complex forest of things.