Changes, for that never changes

After my breakup with Martijn I started talking With Danny Grob, another schoolmate and friend, and we decided to work together!

So a new cooperation, and some new plans.

In short, this is the plan:

Physical representation of the raw materials used to generate the power used by the internet using those materials themselves, and allowing the viewer to 'feel' their impact on their direct environment. The user can alter the variables, and thus see what impact a particular action has.

A bit longer:

we are going to build an interactive installation, in which the raw materials needed to account for the power consumption of the internet is displayed by use of water, soil, gas and electricity. These materials will be incorporated in the installation themselves, and will be shown in what might appear to be a small power plant.

Furthermore, the visitor will be able to interact with the installation (which will derive it's data live from the internet) by changing certain values. What if we would all shut off our computers during the night instead of leaving torrents open? These altered values will be directly shown by the installation.

Everything to scale of course.

Another thing! (jippy!)
Martijn and me have been asked to install some older macs on the polytechnic school in Accra, Ghana, and teach the people there how to use them and the software installed on them. Great opportunity of course to visit another country (really excited about that!) but also a great project organized from within the HKU. A lot of old computers are thrown away just like that, but there are many people in other countries that might have really good used for them. I'm glad to be made part of this!
We will go there around the second week of May, and stay for a month to teach and get everything up and running.
We will be at the Polytechnic school itself, and I will of course keep you posted from there about our adventures.