I found a website project: Clickclickclick.click (Moniker & VPRO Medialab, 2016), an interactive website with almost no visible content. When you arrive, a plain page shows a single green button. As you move your mouse, scroll, resize the window, or leave the tab, a disembodied voice narrates each action aloud (“The user has moved their …
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In “Machinic Rhetorics and the Influential Movements of Robots,” Miles C. Coleman (2018) introduces the concept of “machinic rhetoric” to describe how machines can act as rhetorical agents rather than simply functioning as neutral tools. One important idea in the article is the “hidden layer” between humans and machines. We can see what a machine …
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For my MA project, I am planning to design an interactive installation that explores the relationship between machines and human ritual. The installation will create a kind of “pseudo-spiritual” space in which a visitor is invited to sit down and interact with a mechanical display. The machine collect physiological signals such as heart rate, heart-rate …