A Sculpture for a Thousand People

Interactive Installation | 2022

We cannot recognize the unique pattern of our own fingerprint, yet we have so many objects that do respond to it. This identity marker unlocks our technological gadgets and assets. “A Sculpture for One Thousand People” can store and interpret 1000 fingerprints. The installation uses the reading of the numerical data recorded by a common fingerprint sensor and transforms it into sound frequencies. Then, these frequencies are played by a speaker inside a cymatics device, generating a visual pattern onto a liquid medium. The visual and sonic pattern become visible only by saving the fingerprint into the sensor’s memory, this way, alluding to the restrictive relation we have to objects we own or we call our own. “A Sculpture for One Thousand People” eventually becomes an object dedicated to 1000 viewers, an object that owns 1000 fingerprints data.

Credits: Programming: Cristian Balas | Sound: Cătălin Creţu | Photo: Tudor Popa