2013年10月22日 星期二

批判互動設計作業03 / B9934007 / 張文韋


     Photobox sparks a reflection of the relationship between people, objects and the social model today. With the materials, like wood and metal parts, and the old-look form, this work brings the feeling of precious and timeless, which also suggests photobox would ‘’live with’’ people in ‘’long period of time’’. Focusing in the interaction between photobox and people, we can find photobox is some kind of ‘’independent existence’’. Randomly ‘’choosing’’ photo to print and letting people need to ‘’check’’ rather than clearly ‘’displaying’’ the status both build the autonomy of object. However, there is still strong relationship between those two existences. Obviously, the database that photobox choosing from is people’s everyday photo gallery, Flickr. On the other side, people collect and display their photos with photobox. The interaction shows an admission and a relationship between ‘’live’’ object and people’s “life”.

      What’s more, with the material of photo, this work brings a critique of the social interaction from the past up to present. In the past, people took photos on special moments to memorize; in the present, people snap photos without much expectation. Photobox gives a chance to the snapped photos become meaningful. Photo is still a way to show one’s life, but the process of meaning giving, the context and the way of display have changed.

  Focusing on the interaction of photobox and little printer, we could find that photobox is an ‘’independent existence’’ and little printer is a kind of ‘’loyalty tool’’. The independent of photobox is implied by the random choosing of photos and working automatically and clandestinely. Comparatively speaking, little printer is a very passive tool.

  Although little printer lacks of independent, the form and graphic still make it more ‘’alive’’. Like photobox, it also tends to get a place of people’s life, but using different way, with different goal. Photobox focus on ‘’emotional relationship’’ between objects with people. It sparks a reflection of their everyday life and builds a stage of self-expression in an abstract way. On the other side, little printer plays in a ‘’functional role’’, which brings digital things into reality and makes information become more applicable, efficient and even more flexible. Because of this difference, photobox turns digital information into precious collections to reappear life and little printer turns digital information into easy scraps to involve life.

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