:: project #11

life speculatrix

date: [2007]
authors: nancy diniz & cesar branco

presented at:
 Dislocate 2007Exhibition & Symposium,
in Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, July 23rd - August 5th 2007.
Transitive Materials workshop, Ubicomp 2007, Innsbruck 16 September 2007.

  :: concept

"Life Spectulatrix" is an evolutionary physical skin based on digital environmental feedback retrieved through the webspace. RSS/Atom Environmental feeds, like pollution levels, climate features, sound, from around the world will affect its performance continually. The fundamental idea is to create an online project as a living, evolving tangible experience. We will observe the “evolution” of this piece according to different stimuli, give it our feedback and observe how it learns to adapt itself continually to the evolutionary properties of the environment, thus becoming a universal situated living piece.

:: keywords: Evolutionary design, HCI, Situationism

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