Corpora in Si(gh)te

The Corpora inSi(gh)te exhibition was shown at the Yamaguchi Center for Art & Media, between 13th October 2007 and 13th January 2008.

In “Corpora in Si(gh)te” a number of sensors are setup forming a meshnetwork throughout the area of YCAM in order to collect and distribute realtime environmental information such as temperature, brightness, humidity, wind direction and sound. The data collected from these sources are processed by a software and translated into nodes reflecting the sensor network. These nodes are the seeds for the virtual architecture of “Corpora” representing a cellular, distributed network of nodes that are reacting through realtime processing, growing and subsiding like an organism. Each node makes local decisions independently of a central architect. The nodes inadvertently give rise to an architectural structure, both in the YCAM building and in the park. This “information architecture” of nodes has its own spatial perception to make itself transform into various forms by relying on the super-eye concept. The fluid character of this architecture occurs as a living form. Visitors can observe this process by Augmented Reality Technology, located in various parts of YCAM.

See the project documentation site for more details on Corpora inSi(gh)te at YCAM.