On technology, dematerialisation and ghost-like presences.
Room 8 - Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye - Tate Modern, London, 2012
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“”New York Biotopes“ deals with abstract plants and creatures, which change their forms because of insufficient living space and adapt themselves to the surroundings of the metropolis New York City. A type of metamorphosis, where the newly developed vegetation assimilates elements of the city and makes them useful for their own purposes. These creatures and plants, partly mechanical, partly organically in appearance, spread more and more over the city and fill it up with life.”
New York Biotopes is a proyect by Lena Steinkühler
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From “Connecting”, a documentary about the future of Interaction Design and User Experience:
“Everybody is a little bit too fascinated with making interfaces that look like they can be touched. It’s kind of ironic that we’re trying to make digital things that look a little too real - let’s see how long that last” - Andrei Herasimchuk, Director of Design, Twitter
“Analog can be wonderful. What’s not wonderful, it’s fake analog (…) Let’s make it about the content, not about the chrome*, as they call it. Chrome is devoid of meaning, aside from just a signal of what metaphor is being used. And every time you see it after that it’s just noise. Whereas the content is always real. Pictures, movies, stories, these things will never go out of style. So bridging that somehow, making use of the knowledge, of the metaphor, without imitating it, I think is the sweet spot” - Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Architect of Bing Mobile and Bing Maps
* The visible graphical interface features of an application.
Via Co.Design “8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design”
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Chirp makes machines sing and share data.
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Encouraged by scientific intelligence and imagination, technology tends to expand itself to the level of science-fictional proportions, but when it faces human interaction, this comes as a reality check that puts it back on its tracks.
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Technology for the senses.
IBM poster by Paul Rand.
