Ekkomaten
Ekkomaten is an affectively engaging listening machine that lets people probe the narrative potential of Store Torv in Aarhus, Denmark.
Through its physical manifestation and conceptual framing, Ekkomaten offers an auditory and situated experience of the 18th century through six site-specific echoes that engage its users as protagonists in the exploration of an imagined narrative space emerging from the intersection of fact and fiction and the infra- and extraordinary.
As an electronic design object, Ekkomaten points both back and forward in time, questioning our current understanding of the 18th century, science fiction’s previous visions of the future, and current ideas about possible post-digital futures.
DATE
EKKOMATEN WAS EXHIBITED IN March 2012 AT THE 18th century festival in the city of Aarhus, Denmark.
PROJECT MEMBERS
Jonas Fritsch.
Ditte Amund Basballe.
Morten Breinbjerg.
REFERENCES/LINKS
Fritsch, J., Grönvall, E., Breinbjerg, M. (2016). Analyzing the Aesthetics of Participation of Media Architecture.
In Proceedings of MAB’16, Sydney, Australia. [LINK] [PREPRINT]
Breinbjerg, M. and Fritsch, J. (2014). Deltagelsens Æstetik: om at Høre, Lytte og Adlyde. In Kultur and Klasse,
special issue on Aesthetics of Participation/Deltagelsens Æstetik. [LINK]
Fritsch, J., Breinbjerg, M. and Starcke-Jensen, T. (2014). Designing Interactive Listening Situations.
In Proceedings of OZCHI’14, Sydney, pp. 31-40. [LINK]
Fritsch, J., Breinbjerg, M. and Basballe, D. (2013). Ekkomaten: Exploring the Echo as a Design Fiction Concept.
In Journal of Digital Creativity, 24:1, pp. 60-74. [LINK]
Basballe, D. A., Breinbjerg, M., & Fritsch, J. (2012). Ekkomaten – An auditory interface to the 18th century city
of Aarhus. IN NordiCHI 2012: Making Sense Through Design – Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on
Human-Computer Interaction (s. 742-745). Association for Computing Machinery. [LINK]