Projection artist Paul Notzold of Brooklyn, N.Y., won The Leonardo's bid for a visual installation with his "The Only Certainty: Death and TXTs," which comments on how electronic communication has permeated modern life.

"If cell phones went away tomorrow, I wouldn't have a problem," he said, while demonstrating his piece projected onto a wall inside Salt Lake City's old library. "The technology is taking away from our physical space. The idea is to connect people with their space."

The animated skeleton is one of a handful of multimedia installations The Leonardo has brought to the library to complement Body Worlds. Just as the anatomical exhibit positions deceased humans, Notzold's skeleton assumes poses, but ones that change with every text message viewers sent to it.

"It started as a protest piece to advertising and signs telling us the rules," Notzold said. "Here, the skeleton acts as a mediator that talks back."

As his canvas, Notzold was given a wall-sized space to the left of Douglas Snow's towering mural depicting a rising phoenix. Snow's vertical painting, whose central image appears like a backbone, is a perfect foil to Notzold's 25-foot marionette skeleton, which comes with strings and a dialogue bubble.

The installation provides a number where you can send a text message. Hit "send" and your words will be projected into the bubble as the projected puppet moves in what Notzold calls "interactive theater."

"You get to be part of creating and changing the museum exhibit," said Leonardo spokeswoman Lisa Davis.