interactive design

Making digital things seem physical is one way of getting farther from (and in some positive sense closer to!) the metal . There's something nice about physical things, something comforting to our physically-evolved human souls. Just because you can do so much more on the internet doesn't mean you need to :)

Near the end of this class I realized that a lot of my projects share this common theme. Nucleica is a digital amalgation of two physical things - a trailhead and a synthesizer. Similarly, LockerNotes is a way to digitalize leaving notes for people to find, and Heehee Box is framed as an iPod, evoking the 2000s as well as field-recording devices used in Linguistics and Anthropology. I think maybe the ‘closer to the metal’ article we read had a bigger impact on me than I thought at the time - it’s been on my mind a lot since. Although to be honest, I think I’ve liked this kind of thing for years - one of my favorite internet artists, Spencer Chang, often makes digital things physical, and physical things digital.

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