LITTLE WINGS

Are we going to need more and more tools to help us in the future? Tools, which in fact create new problems themselves rather than solving them?

We will need phenomena to be amazed and fascinated by; interacting machines that surprise us and remind us of what we are doing.

Let‘s imagine, through printed electronics it will be possible to create cutting patterns on our own ink-jet printers that would make up a swarm of little butterfly-like insects. These ‘little wings’ would ‘live’ inside rooms together with people. They would communicate with each other and stay together in a swarm. Being a mirror of their environment, noise would make them flap their wings faster while silence would make them move slowly and be calm.

student:Felix Kraemer
project:POLYTRONICS
year:2011