making technology and graffitti warm, fuzy and slowTuesday, December 16, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
machines: using them, using us
machines: using them/using us is a thought that has been swimming around my head quite a lot recently.
we develop technologies that WE USE to MAKE US more efficient, informed, communicative...
in turn, the machines have started to attach themselves to us, emotionally, physically, cognitively... as we become tethered to them.
as Sherry Turkle writes (you should have clicked the link above, or if you don't feel like reading have a listen)
"whether or not our devices are in use, without them we feel adrift - adrift not only from our current realities, but for our wishes for the future."
checking facts midst-discussion on your iphone? waiting (frantically) for your next email on your blackberry? obsessively checking your facebook feed? sitting across the table from your phone when you're sans friends?
as we turn to gadgets for companionship, learning, expression....why don't they look (and act) like what they are, instead of hiding in the bodies of calculators?
some people dress their gadgets up
but what if gadgets had their own personalities? (dunne&raby rendition)
or they needed to use you, and more explicitly so?
above, the helpless robot at SPACE
the handles beg you to pull and push it, and once you have, it always wants more...and tells you so. with a human voice.
sweet idea, but makes me wonder how objects might put us to use in more organic-symbiotic-natural-everyday ways. to, perhaps, make our attachment more explicit? (and allow us to reflect...) or, to make us work for our use? (because nothing is free)
we develop technologies that WE USE to MAKE US more efficient, informed, communicative...
in turn, the machines have started to attach themselves to us, emotionally, physically, cognitively... as we become tethered to them.
as Sherry Turkle writes (you should have clicked the link above, or if you don't feel like reading have a listen)
"whether or not our devices are in use, without them we feel adrift - adrift not only from our current realities, but for our wishes for the future."
checking facts midst-discussion on your iphone? waiting (frantically) for your next email on your blackberry? obsessively checking your facebook feed? sitting across the table from your phone when you're sans friends?
as we turn to gadgets for companionship, learning, expression....why don't they look (and act) like what they are, instead of hiding in the bodies of calculators?
some people dress their gadgets up
but what if gadgets had their own personalities? (dunne&raby rendition)
or they needed to use you, and more explicitly so?
above, the helpless robot at SPACE
the handles beg you to pull and push it, and once you have, it always wants more...and tells you so. with a human voice.
sweet idea, but makes me wonder how objects might put us to use in more organic-symbiotic-natural-everyday ways. to, perhaps, make our attachment more explicit? (and allow us to reflect...) or, to make us work for our use? (because nothing is free)
Friday, August 8, 2008
trapped in an elevator
how does the meaning of spaces transform out of context?
and a lesson in just how easily a convenience can become a nightmare.
Monday, July 21, 2008
lapjuicer
the lapjuicer
brilliantly shifting focus on furniture, sex, and fruit with a laugh. meant to be used by strippers in clubs: making juice making sexy, could be so more exciting than being touched. Personally I would love to find this at a neighbor's kitchen granite island, just chilling and waiting to be understood.
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