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bump
association.creation (AT)
Distinction Prix Ars Electronica 2001 "Interactive Art"
In the project "bump", two wooden bridges in two different cities form the meeting point for large public events. When someone steps on one of these bridges, this person's weight triggers an impulse that is transmitted through a data transmission cable to the wooden bridge in the other city, thus moving the corresponding plank by a few centimeters.
A tactile interface versus the disembodiedness of network worlds
Two bridges in public space; the inhabitants of one space cannot see the others, but they can sense them and make contact with them. The deformation of space becomes the interface. The interface is called "bump", is ready for the masses to come. Every pressure exerted causes resistance that comes through on the other side. There is a knock from underneath, the slats rise, power transmission via network - "sensations on the move". "If you move along a city's compact walls, when you least expect it, you see a crack open and a different city appears. Then, an instant later, it has already vanished. Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm." (Italo Calvino)
"bump" creates a crack in the urban interface, a place where there is no more solid ground under your feet.
Source: association.creation (AT)
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Prix Ars Electronica - International Competition for Cyberarts 
