Tabby, by Atsuro Ueki
Atsuro, who is part of the Surroundings Project in the Digital Entertainment Lab (Inakage Lab) at Keio University and a doctoral student (major in media design) at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, has this awesome project called Tabby. It's like a room lamp, only it is touchable/tangible, and it — wait for it — breathes! It's variously unsettling and quite settling. I think I would have to get used to a breathing lamp, but maybe we need to stop thinking about out lamps (and other objects that are more ambient Things) as another species, or as symbiants.
A video is here:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2972355310781138142
Tabby, by Atsuro Ueki
Atsuro, who is part of the Surroundings Project in the Digital Entertainment Lab (Inakage Lab) at Keio University and a doctoral student (major in media design) at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, has this awesome project called Tabby. It's like a room lamp, only it is touchable/tangible, and it — wait for it — breathes! It's variously unsettling and quite settling. I think I would have to get used to a breathing lamp, but maybe we need to stop thinking about out lamps (and other objects that are more ambient Things) as another species, or as symbiants.
A video is here:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2972355310781138142