Author wall

Author Wall from Electroland on Vimeo.

Author wall is an installation by Elctroland where a collection of authors are projected onto a wall and controlled by a touch screen. When you select an author on the touchscreen, the authors biography and famous quotation is projected onto the wall. I personally feel that this is a poor piece of interactive architecture and I find the information presented both meaningless and useless. A user is given a random selection of authors to choose from which may or may not bear any relevance to the user and the information provided is nothing interesting or useful. However, if we put the poor content to one side, this projects underlining concept has some credit and is something that could be used as a base to work on. An application that sprang to mind was the way we use libraries and the Patina project. What if the list of authors that we see collected on a screen were related to us. This could be achieved by scanning the ebooks on our tablet and profiling us to make a best match judgment of adjacencies of authors. As our search through new relevant authors continued, the matches to new authors would further develop. These links between other relevant authors could continue further into the software too. As well as linking with new authors, the software also has the potential of linking new authors with your existing e book collection.