Bitquid data
Bitquid overview
My thanks go out to my sister Jolien Holthuis for making these photographs.
Archive for April, 2009
April 27th, 2009
Another point of view
April 11th, 2009
Liquid data has arrived
Bitquid renders 02
Here I have made a screenshot while I was comparing original images to the images that have been build by the system after the data was transported in the liquid. With this current setup, it takes about 40 minutes to transport an image of 100 x 75 pixels. It’s not really efficient, but that isn’t what I am going for. The nice thing is that the binary information has been traveling through our tangible environment. The results are not perfect, and they shouldn’t be. I even think they are beautiful. There will be some more tweaking on the system to find out the best settings.
April 9th, 2009
It’s alive!
Bitquid overview
Bitquid close-up
Bitquid 1st renders
It was hard work, but finally it is there. From the 2nd of Arpil till the 13th Bitquid is exhibited at the STRP Festival in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. So far the system works really great and I already have got lots of positive feedback.
The concept:
“Jeroen Holthuis tries to explore the relationships between two parallel worlds, our digital and analogue environment. Bitquid explores the relationship between these environments by transforming bits to atoms. It is a system with parallel hoses through which, in turn, coloured and colourless fluids are pumped, in order to represend the liquid ones and zeros. The computer features software that drives specially developed hardware. Literally, rows of bits are send to the system, which are then translated into their liquid equivalents.
From bits to atoms…
The repetitive sound of the valves opening and closing, along with the continuous stream of visual information, confers the feeling of being in an analogue cyberspace. The ticking signifies the moment when a bit goes analogue. In this way the system plays around with the imaginary border at which the digital world ceases to exist and the analogue world takes over. At the end of the system, the liquid analogue data, or ‘bitquid’, is decoded and reproduced again into a new image. The effect of the analogue world on the information will be shown on the two screens. The first screen will show a digital image, the other one will display the same image on the other side, but mediated by the imprint of the analogue world.”