In the Information Deliverer, we have used elementary
acts of information technology use as a starting point. Information-handling
acts such as opening, writing and reading information, have been reinterpreted
using textile artefacts. The results are a kind of "abstract information
appliances", i.e., things designed on basis of some elementary form
of use, but where the expressions of use, rather than functionality
in a more practical and concrete sense, are in focus.
The Information Deliverer was exhibited at the Borås Art Museum
in November to December 2001.
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Installation
Each of 10 tubes "delivers" about 50 "pieces of information"
each day. Ten plastic tubes, 2 m high 20 cm in diameter, rise from holes
in a 3,5x6 m podium, 40 cm above the floor. There are two electronic
fans controlled by a micro-controller mounted underneath each tube.
A computer program records and plays back a radio news channel in ten
independent "threads", each one controlling the fans of a
tube.
The installation at the Borås Art Museum was built to run for
23 days. During these 23 days, "news" piled up on the podium
changing the empty surface into a complex landscape of yesterday's news
still lying there to be read and to be reflected upon. At the end of
the exhibition, there were approximately 11 500 unique pieces of fabric
lying on the podium.
Link to project
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Case Study (A4 PDF)
Project team
Exhibition development
Lars Hallnäs, Johan Redström, Linda Worbin
Installation realization
Staffan Björk (Interactive Institute), Lars Hallnäs, Rebecka
Hansson (Interactive Institute), Peter Ljungstrand (Interactive Institute),
Johan Redström, Linda Worbin
Special thanks
Catrin Gustavsson (Borås Art Museum), and the Swedish School of
Textiles, University College of Borås