Eavesdripping

eavesdripping is the design for an installation that uses water as both medium and display, rendering invisible communication visible.

the starting point for this project was an assignment at the berlin university of the arts: by enhancing a material electronically, make an intelligent surface intelligent and able to interact with the world around it. my initial approach was to experiment with physical displays that show computer generated information by a physical change of material. related projects are the wooden mirror by daniel rozin as a physical representation, the source by greyworld as a volumetric display and bitfall by julius popp as an approach to using natural effects as means of display.

the surface which i chose for my work is water – or more precisely, the visual effect of drops of water hitting a liquid surface. my goal was to construct a physical display which by raining on a surface could display simple information on it. every splash would represent a white dot in the image on the ground, every absence of a splash, a black dot.

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Sascha Pohflepp