Is it good that relationship between technology and human becomes too close?
Case 1: Beyond the Pages - by Masaki Fujihata
The work:
- Entity: a table, a chair, a light, a clock and a pen
- Visual images: a book, an apple, a stone, a leaf and door
- Presents a book as interface and simulates the action of turning pages
- Effects via using the book:
a)The lamps light up
b)A very short projection of smiling child within a door appears
Key issues:
- The importance of interactive installation
- The possibility of future digital networking
- Rethink the nature of the book
- Technology's potential for shaping valuable content with fantasy, concentration, and curiosity.
Case 2: Body-Brush Project - by Professor Horace Ip
The work:
- transforming human body movement to various visual form and space
- infra-red illumination
- 3D space, real-time
- visual images variation depends on motion speed, motion acceleration and body- size change
- inspired by Jackson Pollock's action painting
“When Jackson Pollock spreaded the paint with a thrust, the paint will not just fall along the path of his hand. In the interface, we also take into consideration the force exerts on the “paint” ( quoted from a report of the Body-Brush Project)
“When Jackson Pollock spreaded the paint with a thrust, the paint will not just fall along the path of his hand. In the interface, we also take into consideration the force exerts on the “paint” ( quoted from a report of the Body-Brush Project)
Key issues:
- painting in 2-Dimension to 3-Dimension
- draw picture not only by hand, but also by your whole body
- meaning of body movement, relationship between painting and action
- interaction between human body and the environment
- art and psychotherapy:
- reveal human expressive and perceptual patterns
- encourage people to use their bodies to express themselves
“With Body Brush, one can produce visual images for expression and communication not possible through traditional means,” Professor Ip said.
(Grace Ho, Art and Technology meet in psychotherapy, January 2005, 30)
- reveal human expressive and perceptual patterns
- encourage people to use their bodies to express themselves
“With Body Brush, one can produce visual images for expression and communication not possible through traditional means,” Professor Ip said.
(Grace Ho, Art and Technology meet in psychotherapy, January 2005, 30)
Case 3: Constrained City/ the pain of everyday life
The work:
- Extension of human perception
- City-shaped body by following the city code
- Be able to read and experience the invisibility of electromagnetic waves
“Several art projects have been striving to expand these perceptual limits of technology…which try to introduce the body to ‘digital perception’…” (Christiane Paul, Body and identity, p.173)
- Similar projects: Stahl Stenslie’s Tactile Technologies/ Kazuhiko Hachiya’s Inter Discommunication Machine
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Change of everyday routines by taking alternative ones:
"a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities...just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape.“ (Joseph Hart, 2004)
- The experience of human-machine interface not only provide individuals a new way of exploring the city, but also reveals their intension to explore pain:
“Wearer’s admiration for gentle tortures” (Gordon Savicic)
Key issues:“Wearer’s admiration for gentle tortures” (Gordon Savicic)
>> A new way of experiencing the urban systems <<
Case 4: Seeing is believeing - by Hachiya Mazuhiko
The work:
Seeing is believing, an installation for a one-man exhibition at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan. consists of three works. "Empty Entity" infrared ray electric light display, "Sheep" eyewear , and "Mega Diary".
Key Issues:
Without wearing the eyewear you can only see lights flickering on the light board. But in fact , the text of diaries collected through internet are displayed on it. You can't see but there exist lives of people you have never met before. There is another secret in this electric light display --- infrared ray is invisible to the naked eye, but you can read the letters when you get the knack of it.
This work shows how techniques enhance human’s Cognitive and understanding of the world. “Seeing is believing “ seems not quite right under the support of techniques. It comes a new saying “Something exist, maybe you just can’t see it exactly.
Case 5: LED eyelash - Soomi Park
The work:
LED Eyelash is a clever product that speaks to many Asian womens desire for bigger eyes. It features an inclination sensor with mercury to turn on and/or off. The sensor can perceive the movements of the pupil in the eyes and eyelids. If someone wears it and moves her head, LED Eyelash will flicker following the movement.
Key issues:
Her artwork is a piece of art as well as a design product that can be used in our daily life. Thus it’s a good example of the idea of human living with technology with joy and happiness. What’s more, she also make a good use of technology to reflect the environment and culture in a fresh way that catches peoples eye.
Group Conclusion
- importance of interaction
- relationship between human and environment
- existence of other sensibilities -
to feel something that are invisible and we didn’t pay much attention in our daily lives
- reality reflection -
rely on technology to satisfy some desires or new fashion
rely on technology to satisfy some desires or new fashion
- close relationship between human and technology
