Artificial Intimacy
Overview
The project recreates intimate interpersonal interactions between humans and objects, by conjuring a series of ordinary household things behaving in unpredicted ways. The series includes Gaze the Clock, Tickle the Lamp, and Croon the Diffuser(WIP). These objects respond to subtle human input with unique animated attributes and performances that initiate dialogues, promote continued bodily engagement, and communicate emotion.
:/ Physical Computing, Industrial Design, Machine Learning, OpenCV
:/ 2022
Concept
Artificial Intimacy explores expressiveness in non-anthropomorphic objects that gain a form of vitality from their animated attributes and performances. The project embodies the idea of animism and aims at intriguing and provoking people to think about a more equal and intimate relationship between humans and non-humans, in this case, the quotidian objects.
“Most of the time the Clock does its job showing the time. But occasionally when I look at it, it flops down its hands. I think it is just being mischievous.”
“Sometimes I would tickle the Lamp when it gets tired. It flickers differently and I feel I found where its sensitive spot is.”
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