Ichnos – Intangible Data Trails
Ichnos – Intangible Data Trails | Forming the Invisible
Ichnos (Greek: ίχνος) is an ongoing investigation, currently on the 3.05 version, where intangible data, such as social network feeds are digitally sculpted onto tangible morphologies.
Information from a set of social network users is translated into the properties of digital entities. These entities coexist with each other collectively , on a symbiotic level of multi social networking interaction. These clusters of collective intelligence, the rules of which are defined by the designer, shape a field of values on the 7-dimensional space.
The complex 5dimensional field is then down-mapped to the 3-diamensional Cartesian space, following the designer’s intuitive and aesthetic reasoning. These values are morphing a simple piece of digital clay leaving tangible trails resulting to an emergent geometric articulation. The result of this multi-level interaction is yet to be clear, although the once binary invisible information is being translated to an implicit, but at the same time, capable of being physically realised system.
