Jeroen Holthuis tried to explore the relationships between what he likes to call our parallel worlds, or our digital and analogue environment. Bitquid explores the relation between these environments by trying to transform digital information to a new analogue equivalent. The system transforms bits in atoms. It therefore plays with the imaginary boundary where digital information stops and the analogue world begins.
Jeroen Holthuis investigates with Bitquid a way to make digital information and our lives tangible again. In our analogue environment, the transfer of information is never as exact as the transfer of information in the digital world.
Bitquid consists out of a system of hoses and fluids which are pumped through with a total length of about 800 metres. At the end of the system the binary information gets analysed again, revealing an image build of non-electronic transported data.