4. Machinations and Manipulations

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Machines of Disquiet (2014-), Luís Lucas Pereira

Machines of Disquiet has been developed in the context of an ongoing research project whose goal is to create a Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet [Livro do Desassossego – LdoD], an unfinished work written by Fernando Pessoa between

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Machines of Disquiet (2014-), Luís Lucas Pereira

Machines of Disquiet has been developed in the context of an ongoing research project whose goal is to create a Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet [Livro do Desassossego – LdoD], an unfinished work written by Fernando Pessoa between

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Strange Rain (2011), Erick Loyer

Strange Rain turns your device into a skylight on a rainy day. Raindrops fall and splatter on your screen, shifting as you tilt your device like you’re holding a living window in your hands. The more you interact, the more

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Strange Rain (2011), Erick Loyer

Strange Rain turns your device into a skylight on a rainy day. Raindrops fall and splatter on your screen, shifting as you tilt your device like you’re holding a living window in your hands. The more you interact, the more

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La Petite Brosse à Dépoussiérer la Fiction (2005-2011), Philippe Bootz

La Petite Brosse à Depoussiérer la Fiction (“the small brush to dust off fiction”) is an “uncomfortable reading fiction”. The reader must brush the dust that sticks on the tong in order to read the narrative. Uncomfortable reading in which

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La Petite Brosse à Dépoussiérer la Fiction (2005-2011), Philippe Bootz

La Petite Brosse à Depoussiérer la Fiction (“the small brush to dust off fiction”) is an “uncomfortable reading fiction”. The reader must brush the dust that sticks on the tong in order to read the narrative. Uncomfortable reading in which

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Touch / Toucher (2009), Serge Bouchardon, Kevin Carpentier, Stéphanie Spenlé

It may seem paradoxical to propose an artistic web-based creation on touching. One cannot touch directly: touching requires in this case a technical mediation such as a mouse, a microphone or a webcam. This touching experience reveals a lot about

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Touch / Toucher (2009), Serge Bouchardon, Kevin Carpentier, Stéphanie Spenlé

It may seem paradoxical to propose an artistic web-based creation on touching. One cannot touch directly: touching requires in this case a technical mediation such as a mouse, a microphone or a webcam. This touching experience reveals a lot about

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200 Castles (2014-), Caitlin Fisher

Created in Unity using the Vuforia plug-in, 200 Castles is an augmented reality piece for iPad about time, longing, and magical spaces set in both the domestic spaces of a castle across multiple decades and in the spaces of memory.

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200 Castles (2014-), Caitlin Fisher

Created in Unity using the Vuforia plug-in, 200 Castles is an augmented reality piece for iPad about time, longing, and magical spaces set in both the domestic spaces of a castle across multiple decades and in the spaces of memory.

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Transient Self-Portrait (2012), María Mencía

Transient Self–Portrait is an interactive work exploring ways of reading in the electronic medium, while investigating concepts of the digital self through coding for interaction aesthetics and poetics. I have taken as the point of departure two pivotal sonnets in Spanish literature

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Transient Self-Portrait (2012), María Mencía

Transient Self–Portrait is an interactive work exploring ways of reading in the electronic medium, while investigating concepts of the digital self through coding for interaction aesthetics and poetics. I have taken as the point of departure two pivotal sonnets in Spanish literature