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Very interesting site. Hope it will always be alive! Bathroom Blog

I think McLuhan had a lot of this in mind when he wrote 'Understanding Media'. Quite how he did this is another matter, given that this was written in the early sixties. The medium is the message has entered into media ecology as a given term to describe the way a medium affects its surroundings irrespective of its content. Within a digital age and a neo-liberal economy phrases such as 'content is king' have become prevalent and Web 2.0 takes this paradigm further - where the 'user' develops the content (the corporations just sort out the banner ads). But the thing in itself, the physicality of a piece of technology affects how one behaves around it. I am sitting on my bed cross-legged at the moment typing this into a laptop, whereas some years ago I might have been publishing a paper based short edition type-set on an old Olivetti. Consequently the aesthetics of interaction are directly connected to ones behaviour. This is of course a truism but pushed a bit further we can see that devices such as Nintendo's Wii are beginning to break into the physical/virtual space (previously occupied by artists messing around with sensors and MAX/MSP). The leap away from the screen based interaction towards real time play with these kinds of technologies places the human body back into the experience. Still a hardcore of gaming officionados rule that the graphical performance of a machine determines its status, while I am arguing that any lower resolution gaming involving physical role play unlocks the desire to move in space.

Fun. I enjoyed it, plus quite interesting. I would go back and see all of the print outs for all of the options on the questions, but it'd take quite a long time!

what the hell?

Do not ever let this man do the usability again.

Epistiomologally comfusing

Wow, they were amazing. well done, I hope to see more of this!

Watching children with disabilities use Mixed Hello stirred emotions in me too.

Dave

>I hope we see more from this amazing artist soon in Liverpool!

We're working on it :-)

Dave

Hi Alex
behind we have Max/MSP and OpenGL. There's a technical explanation at the exhibition which we will put up on the web soon.

Dave

nice design and smooth instant reaction
whats the wares end behind this ?
greets

salex

I am a communications design student at QUT creative Industries Brisbane Aust. I think your work rocks... I thought you should know I am so inspired by your work. I am interested in how emotions can be stirred because of human-computer interaction, the good the bad and the ugly... LOL

This is great, I hope we see more from this amazing artist soon in Liverpool!

hey whatup elvira!
J

testing-testing
Beaaaaaaaautiful design

Probando probando

woah - i'm definitely showing up to this one. I'm studying AR at my university right now.