lyt_a is at the same time an artwork, an instrument and a translation medium in one. it is a flexible structure that can transmit touch (i.e. haptic information) at a distance, so that when the structure is touched on one site, the touch will be visible and touchable on another. the installation consists of two identical but mirrored parts placed 100 meters away from each other on the concourse of the phaeno science centre in wolfsburg, germany. placing the two structures in separate locations encourages the visitors to play with each other by manipulating the structures with their hands and bodies, and learning about each other's shapes through touch. furthermore, the visitors' touches will remain as shape-traces in the memory of the installation. in moments of low activity, the installation brings the traces back to the surface of the structures. lyt_a's software uses the visitors' traces to create new shapes and body-forms: the traces are therefore mixed, transformed and grown, as if the visitors' touch has 'fertilized' this anorganic form that became alive and autonomous.