Emotional Ruins
Reflecting on Ballard short-story The Thousand Dreams of Stellavista I wondered how smart-materials (such as the plastex material in Ballard story) could become emotionally haunted artefacts. “Echoing every shift of mood” of its inhabitants. Using touch, as an emotional conductor, and thermochromics materials as a revealing, prophetic medium, allowing to read one’s ethereal self. Collecting fragments of stones and cement in London, I aim to create a parallel between the reality of analogue materials and the science fiction prospect of an emotionally and technologically intelligent material.