Dimitri Delcourt invited me to collaborate on a installation for the exposition “de l’argile au nuage” (Bibliothèque de Genève). It illustrates the ethereal nature of modern cloud based library catalogs.

A drifting algorithm traverses the Z39.50 based api provided by the federation of suisse romande libraries (RERO). It jumps from keyword to keyword. The algorithm is run on a node.js server.

photo: copyright Stéphane Pecorini