high fidelity by lisa silbermayr from austria

"Tuesday night I reorganize my record collection; I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I’m not one of them. This is my life, and it’s nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.
When Laura was here I had the records arranged alphabetically; before that I had them filed in chronological order, beginning with Robert Johnson, and ending with, I don’t know, Wham!, or somebody African, or whatever else I was listening to when Laura and I met. Tonight, though, I fancy something different, so I try to remember the order I bought them in: that way I hope to write my own autobiography, without having to do anything like pick up a pen. I pull the records off the shelves, put them in piles all over the sitting room floor, look for Revolver, and go on from there, and when I’ve finished I’m flushed with a sense of self, because this after all, is who I am. (...)" [ROB in Nick Hornsby’s High Fidelity]

With the project "high fidelity" we try to focus on one of the very basic usages of light. Light as a visual guiding aid. Compared to sound - the second very basic guiding system - light has two major advantages:

It points at the exact position of an object and makes it possible to display more points of interest at the same time. We’re working with LEDs to make a multi layer classification system. The LED-stickers module is kept minimal. There is, of course, the led, a Bluetooth chip and the power supply for the components. The adhesive film on it's hull enables it to stick on anything. Via a computer or a mobile phone and a tiny java software the user is able to address a single led-sticker or a group of them. The java software operates a database with a user interface, where one can store as much information as desired. Searching the database either by category or names (...) returns a digital feedback on the display and an analogue - optical - response in the room.
There is a variety of possible uses: filing in offices, tagging objects of everyday use and as a search tool for maniac collectors just as ROB in "high fidelity".

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