Human Cookie is an interactive light installation that uses RFID technology to create a responsive environment that reacts to changing patterns of data flow using proximity analysis. By enabling users to track their progress around events and exhibitions they are able to build up a comprehensive database of the information they have viewed without the need to be distracted by constant note-taking, and acts as a reminder for future reference.
The system also allows users to easily share interests and events within their social networks, and encourages discussions about the information they have accumulated.
The installation visually represents the information gathering checkpoints commonly navigated through in the digital environment. Each exhibit is supplied with an RGB colour catergorised in accordance with the Dewey Decimal system, and as the audience moves around the space, they collect and redistribute information from the exhibits they visit via RFID tags.
Light installations positioned at environmental checkpoints illustrate the information collected, and provide a visual representation of its context
Individual users are able to use the RFID technology to collect digitally the information usually supplied through captions. In so doing, the audience is able to negate the problem of generated interpretation, based upon their initial reading of predefined authoritarian statement by the artist and curators that accompany artworks.
Instead, the selected infomation is collected and stored until the user departs the exhibit, whereby the information can be either viewed through terminals,sent directly to the user via email, or be integrated into social media applications such as Facebook, or Twitter.
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