ec(h)osystem_staircasemilieu
Ec(h)osystem is a transmedia deployment carried out in collaboration with Nathan Prost and Marie Rossi, investigating the possibility of hyperbolizing the third-place use of an art school. What minimal device might allow a discussion between activating bodies and space, mediated by its physical parameters (vibration, luminosity)?
The sound device — performing a continuous capture — acts as a non-linear supra-echo, orchestrating a spatial and temporal redistribution of sound. It uses its own cognition to select, among all the sounds it hears, those it reproduces and those it ignores. By playing constantly, it becomes a constant and irregular echo, endowed with its own memory and mode of expression. This sonic echo triggers a luminous reaction. A light panel changes according to what the sound device produces. It takes into account parameters of its own, sensible properties that it transforms into other sensible properties. The panel varies in luminous intensity, allowing it to express a shifting relation with every material object present in the space, accentuating cast shadows or entirely obscuring the space. Light thus unveils its possibilities of spatial interaction.
The global cognition of the device operates through the activation of solenoid effectors attached to the metal surfaces of the staircase handrail. In case of sonic saturation, a purge–reset system kicks in, physically activating the architecture, emptying the sonic memory but re-implementing it from the sound of the space itself. The materiality of the place becomes part of the global sonic feedback loop.
The installation does not claim to be an autonomous device orchestrating its own relation to the world. It amplifies relations already present, but whose possibilities of interaction now intersect through the device. The dispositif emanates from the place and does not exceed it — but it reinvents it through its new technical possibilities.
