The European Disappearing-computer Atelier project, which Pelle Ehn was coordinating, was running towards an end (may 2004). To exhibit and share many of the findings and designs of the project, Pelle insisted that we should create a K3 version of the projects 'Tangible Archive' - At K3 called 'The COWALL'. It is not easy making IT/computers disappear and integrated in the existing environment... It took days of creating a layout for the modular plexiglass structure, gathering and tagging objects and stories of previous activities and designs from people at K3, testing projections on different types of fabrics, etc. Together with Per Linde, Peter Warrén and I, Mette Agger Eriksen, Pelle was climbing the big ladders up underneath the ceiling to mount the projection surface for showing image and video stories. The next moment we were crawling around the floor to connect the dissapearing computer (in the middle of the plexiglass structure) with printers, tagreaders, scanners, etc.
A satisfying interactive installation indeed, however, maybe the wrong physical positioning at K3 - behind locked doors?! So the students could not access it... After a while Pelle was arguing for and working on having the whole set up moved to the café area, however, rebuiling and making a really stable interface for adding more objects and stories was unfortunately too big a job in relation to the resources available...
by Mette Agger Eriksen
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