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It is a camera whose subject happens to be the electromagnetic presence of the people and devices in a space, treated with the seriousness the ghost metaphor deserves.",{"label":14,"title":15,"prose":16,"artifacts":19},"Measurement","From metaphor to signal",[17,18],"A ghost you invent is decoration. A ghost you measure is an image. The project only became real once the apparitions were driven by the actual radio emissions in the room, so the camera's true sensor is not its lens but a wireless antenna in passive monitor mode.","It listens without connecting to anything, capturing each transmission's signal strength and a device identifier. Those identifiers are sensitive, so they are hashed and salted the moment they arrive and never stored. ELEN reveals presence without surveilling identity, which is the difference between a poetic instrument and a tracking device.",[20],{"src":21,"alt":22,"caption":23,"decision":24,"width":25},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fartifact-measurement.jpg","ELEN's system diagram: passive Wi-Fi and Bluetooth monitoring captures signal strength and device identifiers, which are anonymized, normalized, and mapped to the live visual render.","Detection — passive monitoring, identifiers hashed on arrival.","Anonymizing every identifier at the source was a design ethic, not an afterthought. The camera shows that something is present, never who.","wide",{"label":27,"title":28,"prose":29,"artifacts":32},"Translation","From signal to apparition",[30,31],"The heart of my work was the translation layer. Each detected signal is normalized and fed into a real-time fluid simulation running in the browser, where it injects particles into a shared turbulent field. Signal strength sets an entity's scale, the number of devices sets the density of the field, and network activity drives how fast it all moves.","The whole pipeline runs live: wireless monitoring feeding a reducer, a backend streaming the camera and the signal state, and a visual layer compositing apparitions over the video at sixty frames a second. Holding that frame rate while signals appeared and dissolved in real time was the engineering that made the illusion convincing.",[33],{"src":34,"alt":35,"caption":36,"decision":37,"width":25},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fartifact-translation.jpg","An ELEN capture on a terrace overlooking Lugano: translucent colored apparitions of different sizes drift over the scene, each tagged with an anonymized hexadecimal identifier.","Translation — strength to scale, count to density, activity to motion.","Mapping radio characteristics directly to fluid behavior made the entities feel derived from the signal rather than designed to look like ghosts.",{"label":39,"title":40,"prose":41,"artifacts":44},"The object","A camera you scan with your body",[42,43],"ELEN is handheld and deliberately physical. You power it from the back, capture a moment or open the gallery from two front buttons, and explore by turning through the space. Motion sensing lets the apparitions hold their place in the room as you move, so scanning feels like looking rather than browsing a screen.","Nicholas designed the retro-futuristic enclosure, a 3D-printed chassis with laser-cut plexiglass and orange accents that reads like a piece of speculative field equipment. Nerea shaped the visual identity and the look of the fluid. My part was making the sensing, the translation, and the hardware hold together in real time without dropping a frame.",[45],{"src":46,"alt":47,"caption":48,"decision":49,"width":25},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fartifact-object.jpg","A visitor holds ELEN up in both hands in an indoor public space, framing the room through its screen, the orange body glowing against the daylight behind.","In the hand — scanning the space by turning through it.","Motion sensing lets the apparitions hold their place in the room as you move, so scanning feels like looking rather than browsing a screen.",{"type":51,"value":52,"toc":53},"minimark",[],{"title":54,"searchDepth":55,"depth":55,"links":56},"",2,[],{"role":58,"year":59,"host":60,"scope":61,"shipped":62},"Software & signal engineering","2026","SUPSI · ID212 Spatial Experiences","Team of three","Working prototype, exhibited",{"title":64,"image":65,"alt":66},"ELEN — a speculative camera for invisible wireless presences","\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fadjacent.jpg","ELEN, a handheld camera with a translucent orange body and twin white handles, lit on a gray studio backdrop, its deep-blue screen showing through the plexiglass.","md",[69,73,77,81,85,89],{"src":70,"alt":71,"caption":72},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fgallery-01.jpg","A person holds ELEN up in both hands outdoors, framing the space through its screen, the translucent orange body lit by daylight.","In use — scanning the space by hand.",{"src":74,"alt":75,"caption":76},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fgallery-02.jpg","ELEN at a three-quarter angle on a gray backdrop: translucent orange body, white frame and twin handles, antenna, and the deep-blue screen.","The object — speculative field equipment.",{"src":78,"alt":79,"caption":80},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fgallery-03.jpg","An ELEN capture of a lakeside promenade: pale spectral blobs of different sizes drift over the scene, each tagged with an anonymized identifier.","Apparitions — scaled by signal strength.",{"src":82,"alt":83,"caption":84},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fgallery-04.jpg","The back of ELEN seen through the orange plexiglass: the Raspberry Pi, camera module, wiring, and battery, with the team's engraving.","The hardware — Raspberry Pi, camera, and antenna.",{"src":86,"alt":87,"caption":88},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fgallery-05.jpg","An ELEN capture inside a baroque church: faint spectral presences drift among the gilded altar, angels, and frescoes.","A capture — one moment of the invisible layer.",{"src":90,"alt":91,"caption":92},"\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fgallery-06.jpg","ELEN in its open packaging: the device nestled in foam inside the interlocking white box, with its antenna and a printed brochure.","Packaging — interlocking, fastener-free.","\u002Fimages\u002Fwork\u002Felen\u002Fhero.jpg","ELEN, a handheld camera with a translucent orange 3D-printed body and twin white handles, lit on a gray studio backdrop. Its deep-blue screen and internal wiring show through the plexiglass.",{},true,[98,99,100],"A working handheld prototype. Real-time wireless detection, translated into a living spectral overlay that responds to the devices actually present in a space.","ELEN was built for the Shadow Creatures exhibition brief at Fotomuseum Winterthur. Marco De Mutiis appreciated the project but did not select it: it read as product design more than art, too resolved as an object.","After the course it found its room anyway, selected for Milan Design Week in the digital design program.","\u002Fwork\u002Felen",[103,104,105],"We move through dense clouds of wireless signal all day. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the constant chatter of connected devices. The infrastructure of connected life is everywhere around us, and we perceive none of it.","The course asked for a \"magical camera\": a speculative device that extends human perception beyond its natural limits. Our question followed directly. What if a camera could photograph the wireless presences filling a room?","The framing came from Shadow Creatures, the research thread of Marco De Mutiis, digital curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur, who studies how networked and algorithmic technologies see. It traces a line from nineteenth-century spirit photography to computational imaging. Ghosts are no longer supernatural; they are infrastructural. ELEN is a camera for those ghosts.","The most useful feedback was the rejection. \"Too product design, not artsy enough\" is fair, and worth sitting with: we engineered a clean, resolved object for a brief that rewarded ambiguity and rough edges. The same instinct that makes me a good systems builder made the piece read as finished where art wanted it open. That the project then fit Milan Design Week says it found the right room in the end. 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Taught by Leonardo Angelucci, a Zürich-based designer and coder, and Marco De Mutiis, digital curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur.",{"title":5,"description":54},"live","work\u002Felen","A speculative camera that photographs the invisible. 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