Bitquid prototype, graduation exhibition 11 July 2008

In the summer of 2008 I graduated for Communication & Multimedia Design with an experimental installation named Bitquid. This project is a physical research after my theoretical research for my thesis ‘Bits & Atoms: Designing the void in between’. In my thesis I tried to explore the relationships between what I like to call our ‘parallel worlds’, or our digital and analogue environment. Bitquid explores the relation between these environments by trying to transform digital information to a new analogue equivalent. The system transforms bits in atoms. It therefore plays with the imaginary boundary where digital information stops and the analogue world begins.

As an analogue equivalent to digital information I looked for a physical medium that, for me, associated with the word ‘analogue’ the most. For me this was a fluid. In contradiction to digital information, which consists out of ones and zeros (which in fact are analogies for electrical or magnetic loads), and thus only exists in two states, a fluid behaves in such a complex way that it’s states could never be fully comprehended.

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