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Synesthetic Experience in S T R A T I C
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID. (IXD Lab)
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). (IXD Lab)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1974-1100
2018 (English)Conference proceedings (editor) (Refereed) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]

How do we humanize digital interactive technology? One way is through our experience with technology. With S T R A T I C we present several post-digital concepts to discuss the relationship of the digital in regard to our human lives. We emphasize the synesthetic experience along with other aesthetic experiences and materiality issues with manifestations of the digital in the physical world, tangible approaches to sonic performances, or exposure of internal logics of technological processes.

In this paper, we propose both exhibiting our work as an art installation and via a live performance. We regard it as being highly relevant to the topic of the TEI Arts Track exhibition: post-digital materiality at the intersection of the analog and the digital, and to its tangible aspects. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ACM Press, 2018. , p. 7
Keywords [en]
Synesthetic experience; post digital; post-digital aesthetics; interactive art; interaction design; audio- visual performance; sampling rate.
National Category
Humanities and the Arts Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Art, Technology and Design; Human-computer Interaction; Machine Design; Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224617OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-224617DiVA, id: diva2:1191740
Conference
Arts Session: TEI ArtsTEI 2018, Tangible, Embedded Interactions, March 18–21, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
Note

QC 20180321

Available from: 2018-03-20 Created: 2018-03-20 Last updated: 2022-06-26Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Humanizing Technology Through Post-Digital Art
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2018 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]

I draw upon the idea of the post digital to create (1) art for humanization of technology and (2) art as manifestations of digital qualities in the physical world, e.g., through digital-analog convergence, or through enriching our experiences with hybrid constellations of techniques, concepts and aesthetics.

My work consists of two parts: practice-based research in the arts and conceptualizations arising from my practice. Four art projects are presented in this thesis: Metaphone, Delete By Haiku, S T R A T I C, and Panorama Time. My post-digital approach is manifest through the hacking activities, disruptive techniques and aesthetic approaches I apply. These thrive on a set of constitutive concepts: machine aesthetics, digital upcycling, aleatoricism and chance, deletion, repetition, fault aesthetics and glitch aesthetics. My post-digital aesthetic principles depend on machinic, systematic behaviors in the technologies I explore. Machine aesthetics expose operational and mechanical principles and behaviors. Digital upcycling is a repurposing design process wherein function follows form to add value to old defunct objects. I deploy chance in the design process through a “rolling a dice” approach. I use both deletion and insertion repetitively as design principles. In my work, I also induce technical faults and take deliberate control of machine glitches. These are all aesthetic approaches that help transform the “cold” appearance of information technologies and bring them closer to people, thereby humanizing technology. Some of the aesthetic principles (e.g., machine aesthetics or glitch aesthetics) might not seem “natural” or “human” but I use them to explore digital materiality analogously to how steel, iron and other materials were approached from the early phases of the industrial revolution and Modernism. As such these aesthetic principles are ways of interrogating the digital thriving o a cultural-historical point of view. 

Abstract [sv]

Jag bygger på idén om det post-digitala för att skapa (1) konst för human- isering av teknik och (2) konst som manifestationer av digitala kvaliteter i den fysiska världen, t.ex. genom digital-analog konvergens eller genom att berika våra upplevelser med hybridkonstellationer av tekniker, be- grepp och estetik.

Mitt arbete har två delar - praktikbaserad forskning inom konst och kon- ceptualiseringar som uppstår genom min konstnärliga praktik. Fyra konst- projekt presenteras i denna avhandling: Metaphone, Delete By Haiku, S T R A T I C, och Panorama Time. Mitt post-digitala tillvägagångssätt består av hackningsaktiviteter, disruptiva tekniker och olika estetiska tillvä- gagångssätt. Dessa kan beskrivas med följande begrepp: maskinestetik, digital ”upcycling”, ”aleatoricism” och chans, radering, repetition, feleste- tik och “glitch”-estetik. Mina post-digitala estetiska principer bygger på maskinella, systematiska beteenden i tekniken jag utforskar. Maskineste- tik exponerar operativa och mekaniska principer och beteenden i maskin- en. Digital ”upcycling” är en återanvändande designprocess där funktion följer form för att lägga till värde till gamla objekt. Jag använder chans

i designprocessen genom en “rullande tärning” -strategi. Jag använder både radering och upprepning som designprinciper. I mitt arbete inducer- ar jag också tekniska fel och tar medvetet kontroll över maskin-”glitches”. Dessa är alla estetiska tillvägagångssätt för att omvandla informationste- knologins “kalla” utseende och ta den närmare människor och därigenom humanisera tekniken. Några av de estetiska principerna (t.ex. maskineste- tik eller “glitch”-estetik) kanske inte verkar “naturliga” eller “mänskliga” men jag använder dem för att undersöka digital materialitet analogt till hur stål, järn och andra material utforskades under industriella revolu- tionen och modernismen. Som sådana är dessa estetiska principer sätt att utforska det digitala genom ett kulturhistorisk perspektiv. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm, Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2018. p. 160
Series
TRITA-EECS-AVL ; 2018:20
Keywords
Humanization of technology, post-digital aesthetics, abstraction, materiality, immateriality, interpretative digitality, hacking, disruption, accelerationism, interactive art, interaction design, human-computer interaction.
National Category
Engineering and Technology Humanities and the Arts
Research subject
Art, Technology and Design; Human-computer Interaction; Media Technology; Computer Science; Electrical Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-224618 (URN)978-91-7729-712-3 (ISBN)
Public defence
2018-04-12, Reactor Hall (R1), Huvudentré Drottning Kristinas väg 51, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2018-03-21 Created: 2018-03-20 Last updated: 2022-06-26Bibliographically approved

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