read & respond | Hertzian Tales Ch. 2

Becoming apart of an integrated circuit

Sociopolitical environments:

1. Capitalist democracy
2. Comunism

Subtle enslavement of human beings to their devices:

-dependency

-mental consumption

-lack of variability in design

Conceptual model of technology:

-increases efficiency

-supports workplace

-not human-centered

Transition from our design origins of electronic objects (the military)

DARPA-collegiate military funded research

Human factors

-Participation, competition

-Our behaviour is sculpted by the hegemony

Hegemony-dominant thought

-have to be apart of the hegemony to affect it

Zanuso and Sapper - 1969 - TV for Brion Vega ~ black, shiny cube; all the interface disappears into the cube; black monolith; object of art

Art movements happening at this time - minimalism, pop art, surrealism

The Atom

Very slick designs (ie: The Jetsons)

Semiotics, semantics

Fan Heater - 1981 - Scheuer - Fibonacci sequence

Metaphorical definitions:

Opaque: black, mystery box; undefinable

-no semiotics, instructions

-can’t operate the interface without noticing

-good for dangerous things, methodical

Transparency:

Biomorphism:

Biology is redundant - Stelarc

Satori TV

Adelbretch - globe shaped robot that follows you around

Pet or alien?

Reacted to touch with speech

User unfriendliness does not mean user hostility

Poetry

ICE - interrogation and customs enforcement

Interrogation robot

Look up: Psycho-Pass anime

Anthony Dunne

Critical or speculative design - theorycrafting, tries to project what will be designed years from now using a critical eye

Technological Dream Series No. 1: Robots

Intimate posture (like holding a baby) to use Sentinel