Energie-Passagen: die Stadt Lesen und (Be)Schreiben
Interactive public art installation
Energy_Passages: Reading and Writing the City The project Energie_Passagen reproduces the linguistic space of the city as a data flow. Hundreds of catchwords taken from current newspaper reports flow on the street. Passers-by select individual words out of this projected information flow. Thus, thematically related networks of terms start to form in the floor projection. Linguistic software reduces the original text to catchwords and turns semantic relations into these networks of words, reflected as an audiovisual echo. Artificial voices read out these reconfigured news. By means of word selection the visitors create a Living Newspaper according to their personal interest. The installation is like an information browser to walk in. Amidst winter the Literature Houses forecourt is being transformed into a reading garden with the flair of an outdoor cinema.