User:Hizkia
]Digital Craft: Practice Q9 "How to be human"
Installation
As a final piece to How to be Human we made the theory we learned into a physical piece. During the video research we found out that there are a lot of different methods to measure heat. One of these methods was through thermo-sensitive material. This, often plastic, material contains thermochromic paint that reacts to a combination of moisture and heat. The filament we found turns transparent when it 'detects' heat. The fact that the material becomes slightly translucent could be used to make image or text appear and disappear. After trying some samples and showing them to others, we found out that the material on itself was already interesting.
The shape of the object that we made is a reference to the so called human magnetic field. This torus shape thus also the shape we wanted to go with. Not only because it is a reference to human energy but also because the shape allows itself to be touched with the entire hand and also allows fingers to be moved across the shape.
For our presentation, we decided to also make a poster. The title 'energy flows were the attention goes' gives the user some kind of mystery in touching the object and figure out what it does. This installation basically registers the influence of your body heat for a short amount of time as some kind of analog heat sensor.
Booklet
I sended the instagram of my friend to the algorithme, as being the digital identity. To get a digital interpretation of this digital identity and see what the result would be. I made, based on the result of the algorithme, a booklet with my interpretation of this digital interpretation. with 60 illustrations I compared Mine with hers and discussed the dangers and the differences of a digital identity. We discussed reality, image and insecurities. To showcase this matter I printed the interpretations on a glass screen, referring to the telephone and computer screen, because this is the platform of our digital identity.
