Thursday, September 6, 2007

programming drawingtools


..and it works! though the white colour was an unexpected default.
(colour picker at the bottom, increase and decrease of brush size at the top.)
The biggest problem so far is that I enjoy drawing with it more than writing and editing it.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

input > something something magic++ > fancy output.


Software as interactive, running performance. 
"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images,animation, and interaction." .."for learning, prototyping and production".
(www.processing.org) Basically; computer programming within the context of visual arts.
Output can be classified as strong or weak generative art. Strong: The system or process as an aesthetic object. Weak: Semi-automated creation using parametric rules.(infinite variations to mass customization; family of one-off products.)
Output 1.-8. are stills from tutorials done with Watz.



Sunday, September 2, 2007

How do you do? How do you feel? How do you know?

"Designing the way machines give feedback, by creating maps, paths and in general understandable ways of navigating  through content" seems to be the most common way of describing what interaction design is today.
Divided into macro and micro views this can be seen as everything from designing relations between systems and people, down to the beautiful details in a website or product that just makes us feel happy..



Friday, August 31, 2007

Rituals

The social consequences of technology and rituals emerging from it:
Rituals as simple everyday interactions, such as shaking or holding hands, behold universal dimensions and can be applied to possibly every set of demographic culture, (though the symbolic meaning may differ.) The rituals of everyday life also define who and what we are to different people. Technology tend to act as a contributor to developing cultural languages and rituals, based upon mutual understandings of common feelings.


Paper-prototyping a coffemachine


testing the concept of ordering by selecting components on a touch-screen out on Petter Moshus, instituteleader.

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