Inspired by Norbert Wiener's cybernetics theory and the aesthetic principles of the Bauhaus movement, this group of students created an exhibition titled "Cybernemasks," combining artistic construction with communication theory into a single interactive concept. Their objective was to bring together two ways of thinking, one scientific, one artistic, and to make the abstract mechanisms of communication tangible for a general audience. To accomplish this, the students drew on Wiener's core model of communication, in which a message travels from a transmitter through a channel to a receiver, before returning to the source as feedback. This circular process, rather than a simple linear exchange, formed the conceptual backbone of the entire project. The Bauhaus movement provided the aesthetic framework, with its emphasis on minimalism, functionalism, and the search for meaning through geometric form.
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The exhibition was divided into two complementary parts. The first was an interactive workshop in which visitors were invited to participate directly in the communication process. Blindfolded, a participant had to reconstruct one of two Bauhaus-inspired cardboard structures displayed on the wall, guided only by the voice of another person. This simple game made it possible to observe, in real time, how a message is encoded, transmitted, decoded and acted upon, and how the relationship between sender and receiver depends on the clarity and quality of the information exchanged. The second part took the form of a discovery gallery. Five plastic masks, painted in skin tones and decorated with Bauhaus-inspired geometric shapes, were placed on a table and connected to one another by LED lights. Inside each mask, words written in different languages described the successive steps of communication: sending the message, decoding it, receiving it, and carrying out the action. The flickering LEDs, alternating between on and off, represented the ongoing feedback between participants, mirroring the same process visitors had just experienced in the workshop. In the end, the project proved to be a colourful and thoughtful contribution to the exhibition. Through the combination of a hands-on activity and a visual installation, the students demonstrated that communication is not a straight line but a cycle, constantly adjusted by the feedback passing between those involved. |
