Sound and light installation made In collaboration with Nathan Prost and Manoah Camporini.

Ec(h)osystem is a transmedia installation that explores the hyperization of space. Usually, high-traffic areas are experienced only as transit zones, in order to move from point A to point B while trying to protect ourselves from sensory overload. But what if we took all the stimuli - visual, aural, material - specific to these liminal places and
amplified them, connecting them into a system to make a random ecology of elusive, chaotic agents?

Just as we become aware of our bodies only when they fall ill, this project operates a subtle parasitic interference that contaminates the reverberation of sound as much as the lighting. By continuously capturing sounds, Ec(h)osystem acts as the sonic memory of the place, recording the events that traumatize it - slamming doors, laughter, screams, .... - and plays them back reactively and asynchronously, like a paradoxical echo that transforms the past into a repetition of the present. 

Artificial light sources, usually so stable and functional they become invisible, blink to the rhythm of the noises that haunt the place. It's only when they lose their utilitarian, invisibilizing function that places and objects become worthy of our attention, as demonstrated by the distributed network of solenoids punching the walls when the activity threshold approaches a critical level. In the event of audible and visual saturation, a purge-reset system is activated: the architecture, overstimulated by memories replayed and amplified in a deafening feedback loop, finds temporary salvation in unconsciousness and oblivion.