Monday, January 28, 2013

The Goofy Physical Ways We Interact With Digital Technology

"Cell Trance" from Curious Rituals (Via Curious Rituals) 

There’s a post (that I can no longer find, unfortunately) on the hilarious Tumblr Sexpigeon (SFW, I promise) that features a man on the street, slouching over his smartphone, face angled far down, features invisible. The caption, something to the effect of: “What a brave new world for posture we live in.” The advent of portable technology has brought with it a range of new behaviors, both virtual and physical. Two recent projects take on the IRL side of how we interface with our contemporary devices

Curious Rituals is a research project by Nicolas Nova, Katherine Miyake, Nancy Kwon, and Walton Chiu that examines “gestural interaction in the digital everyday.” Their recent PDF publication of the same name explores the grammar of physical actions that we have invented to deal with technology.

For the rest of the story: http://hyperallergic.com/64110/the-goofy-physical-ways-we-interact-with-digital-technology/

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