Ichnos – Intangible Data Trails | Forming the Invisible
Ichnos (Greek: ίχνος) is an ongoing investigation, currently on the 3.05 version, where intangible data, such as social network feeds are digitally sculpted onto tangible morphologies.
Information from a set of social network users is translated into the properties of digital entities. These entities coexist with each other collectively , on a symbiotic level of multi social networking interaction. These clusters of collective intelligence, the rules of which are defined by the designer, shape a field of values on the 7-dimensional space.
The complex 5dimensional field is then down-mapped to the 3-diamensional Cartesian space, following the designer’s intuitive and aesthetic reasoning. These values are morphing a simple piece of digital clay leaving tangible trails resulting to an emergent geometric articulation. The result of this multi-level interaction is yet to be clear, although the once binary invisible information is being translated to an implicit, but at the same time, capable of being physically realised system.
Due to its implicit spatial intricacy such a system is fundamentally connected to digital fabrication. Fabrication methods may vary from 3dprinting, laser-cutting to cnc milling and robotic machining.
