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01.08 Teaching Critical Objects course with Martín Ruiz de Azúa. Product Design. Elisava. Barcelona

01.08 Teaching Internet Zero seminar. Master in Advanced Architecture at IaaC, Barcelona

12.07 Teaching Introduction to Electronics as part of Digital Fabrication class led by Marta Male-Alemany. Master in Advanced Architecture at IaaC, Barcelona

12.07 Teaching Physical Interaction. Master of Interaction Design. Elisava. Barcelona

11.07 Launching ELISAVA TdD design journal, issue 24th about Critical Design with contributions from Azra Aksamija, Roger Ibars, Alessandra Caporale, Miren Etxetarreta, Raquel Pelta, Joan Subirats, Pilar Echavarria and Ruedi Bauer. Barcelona

11.07 Teaching In-human factors. Master of Interaction Design. Elisava. Barcelona

10.07 City of Children workshop and public intervention in Copacabana. Collaboration with Universidad Nacional, Sede Medellín for project Ciudadelas. Thanks to Natalila, Daniel, Paula, Edwin

10.07 Lecturing about Community Networks at Cohabitar, postgraduate course on Emergency Habitat directed by Anna Nufrio. Havana

09.07 Attending Design + 3D Cumulus conference in Bratislava. Working group Digital Culture led by Frederic Degouzon

09.07 Opening of the new facilities of Ecal. Laussane. Thanks Mr. Keller.

08.07 4x8 exhibition at Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago. 3 entries developed at Fab Lab Bcn workshop awarded prizes

08.07 Attending Digital Fabrication Symposium in Chicago

07.07 4x8 workshop at Fab Lab Bcn with Amy Sun from MIT. Barcelona

06.07 Interactive dress for opera play, commisioned by La Fura dels Baus. Barcelona. Thanks Pep.

06.07 Shared Objects. Product Design students' final project presentations at Elisava. Barcelona

06.07 Attending Crossing Boundaries. Cumulus congress. Stuttgart.

06.07 Invited jury at Institute of Advanced Architecture. Workshop led by EcoLogic Studio. Thanks Jorge

05.07 Visiting Boston Fab Lab at South End Technology Center and MIT Medialab with Vicente Guallart

05.07 Working part time at Fab Lab Bcn at Institute of Advanced Arquitecture. Developing educational program Thanks Vicente

05.07 Final project installation Artificial Paradise at Antic Teatre, CCCB. Master in Interaction Design. Elisava.

05.07 Open networks and social capital in the multiethnical Barcelona. Lecturing for Friends of UNESCO. Barcelona. Thanks Jordi

04.07 Political Landscapes. Co-running workshop with Carlos Trilnick and Carlos Hernández for 120 students, developing strategies for active participation and social inclusion. Universidad Bolivariana. Organized by Universidad Javeriana, PEI and Parque Explora. Thanks Carlos

04.07 City of Children. Urban exploration workshop and public drawing projections for 8 years old kids within Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales. Thanks Felipe

03.07 First workshop with teenagers at Fab Lab Bcn, Institute of Advanced Architecture. Barcelona. Thanks Vicente

03.07 Lecturing for Visual Communication Design students. Arts Academy. Split. Thanks Ivica

03.07 Visiting Glasgow School of Art for Master of European Design workshop presentation. Thanks Gordon

02.07 Teaching Interaction Laboratory at Master of Interaction Design at Elisava. Barcelona. Thanks Nuria

02.07 Lecturing at Engage. Design for Emotions. FAD, Barcelona. Thanks Miguel

01.07 Shared Objects. Tutoring final project for Product Design students at Elisava, with Martin Ruiz de Azúa. Barcelona

11.06 netObjects on show at OFFjetos, Museo de Artes Decorativas, Barcelona. Curated by Oscar Guayabero

11.06 Domesticated Appliances workshop with Product Design students at Glasgow School of Art. Thanks Carlos, Katty

09.06 Bricotech. Final show of Product Design students at Elisava, Barcelona

09.06 Appointed International Relations Coordinator at Elisava, Barcelona.

09.06 City of Children. Urban exploration workshop for children in Wedding. Collaboration with Paula Kramer, Sabisa. Berlin.

08.06 Lecturing at Convivio Interaction Design Summer School. Edinburgh. Thanks Riccardo, Yngve, Michael

07.06 Appointed co-editor (with Daniel Cid) of TdD design journal. First issue will be about critical design

06.06 Co-running urban workshop with Xavi Hurtado and PEI students from Bogotá. Hangar. Barcelona. Thanks Carlos, Pedro

06.06 Interactive lighting design for a bar in Paseo de Gracia. Barcelona. Collaboration for Martín Ruíz de Azúa

06.06 City of Children. Drawing witn light on church facade. Calaf. Barcelona. Thanks Ramón, Oriol

05.06 Presentation of Traqueur de moustiques, one of four binomes within project Correspondances, curated by KRN. Gaw Lab, Dakar. Thanks Silvyanne, N'gone, Amadou

05.06 Performing with WJs software by Anne Roquigny, with KRN and Marika Dermineur. Gaw Lab. Dakar. Thanks Anne

05.06 netObjects selected for C4F3 show at ZeroOne ISEA. San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art. San Jose

05.06 City of Children. The audiovisual equipment for urban exploration is featured in El País. Thanks Roberta

05.06 Questioning Public Art. Debate sessions at Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona

04.06 City of Children. Opening of Idensitat exhibition at El Casino. Manresa. Barcelona

03.06 The book Recerca i Disseny which includes Invisible Cities project is presented at Elisava. Barcelona

02.06 Electronics and Craft workshop with Glasgow School of Art Product Design students. Glasgow. Thanks Carlos, Dan

01.06 Bricotech, with Martín Ruíz de Azúa. Tutoring final project. Product Design. Elisava. Barcelona

12.05 Visiting Departamento de Diseño Visual. Universidad de Caldas. Manizales. Thanks Felipe,

11.05 Visiting Art department at Universidad de Los Andes. Bogota. Thanks Hernando, Andrés

11.05 Hybrid Spaces workshop with Universidad Javeriana Architecture and Design students. Bogota. Thanks Antonio, Cata

11.05 Lecturing at Artrónica. Bogota. Thanks Lina, Matias, Nasly

11.05 netObjects part of exhibition My World, New Crafts curated by Jaime Hayon. ExperimentaDesign. Lisbon

09.05 City of Children. Urban workshop with 8 years old children. Calaf . Barcelona

06.05 Research project Invisible Cities will be published in the book Recerca i Disseny early next year. Thanks Jordi

05.05 City of Children selected for Idensitat, a program that calls for projects about critical intervention and social interaction in public space. Barcelona

05.05 Speaking at Designinart with Tobi Schneider. Gothenbourg. Thanks Margot, Ramia, Daniel

05.05 Speaking at the Creative Entrepreneurs Club with Serrano. Glasgow. Thanks Stacey

02.05 netObjects solo show at Young Designers Gallery of The Lighthouse. Glasgow. Thanks Lesley

01.05 Speaking with Crispin Jones and Tobi Kerridge at Fine Arts. Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona. Thanks Xavi

12.04 Speaking at Communication Sciences. Universitat Autònoma. Barcelona. Thanks Jordi

11.04 netObjects on show at NEXT. Copenhagen. Thanks Peder

11.04 low-tech vs high-tech workshop co-directed with Roger Ibars. Media and Interaction Design. Ecole cantonale d'art de Laussane. Thanks Zay

09.04 netObjects selected finalist of Canarias Mediafest. Las Palmas

07.04 Invisible Cities will be supported with the International Design Research Scholarship Enric Bricall. Elisava. Barcelona

06.04 Micro 360º. Working at Interaction-Ivrea for FIAT's Advance Design Center. Thanks Simona, Natasha

04.04 netObjects on show at Designers Block during Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Milano. Thanks Rory

03.04 Dos Islas. Filming documentary in Cuba, with Roberto Pais.

03.04 Docuserver project in Havana with Kristine Bergaust. Funded by Atelier Nord, Oslo. Thanks Atle

02.04 netObjects solo show at Electrohype-ROM. Malmo. Thanks Anne, Lars

12.03 netObjects solo show at H2O Gallery. Barcelona. Thanks Joaquim

11.03 netObjects solo show at Mallside Gallery. Oxo Tower. London

11.03 Speaking at AIGA Experience Design. The Design Council. London. Thanks Nico

11.03 Speaking at Central Saint Martins. London. Thanks Carolle

11.03 Speaking at Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art. London. Thanks Dominique

10.03 netObjects launched at e-Culture Fair 2. Amsterdam. Thanks Martine

09.03 Accesible Team workshop with Kristine Bergaust and Jaka Zeleznikar. Part of Nordic Live Art. Gothenburg's Kunsthallen

07.03 Box show at Technology for Everyday Life. Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

06.03 Box presentation at Philisophical Conversations round table. Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.

02.03 Participating at Reapproaching New Media: Artistic Strategies for the Networks. Atelier Nord. Oslo. Thanks Attle

dosislas

EMAIL victor at dosislas dot org
MOBILE +34 628 021 079
SKYPE victorvina

bio

Victor Vina holds an MA in Computer Related Design from the Royal College of Art in London. During the last 5 years, he has been researching and teaching digital craft at different institutions, and developing creative workshops with children.

He is head of international relations at Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny, and co-editor of TdD design journal. Currently he also collaborates with Fab Lab Bcn, a digital fabrication lab set up at the Institute for Advanced Architecture, Barcelona, in collaboration with MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. He lectures in graduate and post-graduate programs in Barcelona, and runs workshops in architecture and design schools in Europe and South-America.

education

99-01 MA Computer Related Design. Royal College of Art. London
------- Thesis: Interfaces for Understanding
93-98 BA Industrial Design. ESDI. Valencia

affiliations

07-08 Institute of Advanced Architecture. Barcelona
------- Fab Lab's educational program director
06-08 Elisava Escola Superior de Dissseny. Barcelona
------- International relations coordinator
04-05 Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny. Barcelona
------- Design research scholarship. Invisible Cities
01-03 Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
------- Researcher. Box. Design Your Own Network
06.00 Mediamatic. Amsterdam
------- Intern. Anymeta

editorial

06-07 Elisava TdD. Barcelona
------- Co-editor with Daniel Cid
03.06 Recerca i Disseny. Elisava. Barcelona
------- Editor

teaching

07-08 Master in Advanced Architecture. IaaC. Barcelona
------- Internet Zero
12.07 Master in Advanced Architecture. IaaC. Barcelona
------- Introduction to Electronics
12.07 Master in Interaction Design. Elisava. Barcelona
------- Physical Computing
11.07 Master in Interaction Design. Elisava. Barcelona
------- In-human Factors
06.07 Fab Lab. IaaC. Barcelona
------- 4x8 workshop, with Amy Sun
04.07 Universidad Bolivariana. Medellín
------- Political Landscapes, with Carlos Trinick
04.07 Fab Lab. IaaC. Barcelona
------- Fab'n'me
06-07 Master in Interaction Design. Elisava. Barcelona
------- Physical Computing
06-07 Product Design. Elisava. Barcelona
------- Shared Objects, with Martin Ruiz de Azúa
11.06 Product Design. Glasgow School of Arts. Glasgow
------- Domesticated Appliances
06.06 PEI. Hangar. Barcelona
------- Turo [1/3]. With Xavi Hurtado
02.06 Product Design. Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow
------- Electronics and Crafts
05-06 Product Design. Elisava. Barcelona
------- Bricotech, with Martin Ruiz de Azúa
11.05 PEI. Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá
------- Hybrid Spaces
11.04 Media and Interaction. Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne
------- Low-Tech vs High-Tech, with Roger Ibars

shows

11.06 Offjetos. Museo Artes Decorativas. Barcelona
06.06 City of Children performance. Calaf. Barcelona
05.06 WJs performance. Gaw Lab. Dakar
03.06 Idensitat. El Casino. Manresa
11.05 Artrónica. Bogotá
09.05 My World, New Crafts. ExperimentaDesign. Lisbon
04.05 The Lighthouse. Glasgow
12.04 Next. Copenhagen
09.04 Canarias Mediafest. Las Palmas
04.04 Designers Block. Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Milano
02.04 Electrohype-ROM. Malmö
12.03 Galería H2O. Barcelona
11.03 Mallside Gallery. Oxo Tower. London
10.03 e-Culture Fair 2. De Balie. Amsterdam
08.03 Nordic Live Art. Gothenburg
06.03 Technology for Everyday Life. Interaction-Ivrea
05.03 Being There. Not-TV. London
09.02 Interplay. Electrohype. Malmö
07.02 Work in Progress. Interaction-Ivrea
06.02 The Tube. Platform for New Media. London
03.02 IBID Projects (1-6). London
11.01 Institute of Contemporary Arts. London
06.01 The Show. Royal College of Art. London
12.00 Under Construction. Interaction-Ivrea

lectures | talks

09.07 Cohabitar. Postgraduate course in Emergency Habitat. Havana
04.07 Club de Amics de la UNESCO. Barcelona
04.07 Museo de Antioquía. Medellín
04.07 Festival Internacional de la Imagen. Manizales
03.07 Visual Communication. Arts Academy. Split
02.07 Engage. Emotional Design. FAD. Barcelona
08.06 Convivio Interaction Design Summer School. Edinburgh
05.06 Correspondances. Gaw Lab. Dak'art Off Biennale. Dakar
04.06 Idensitat. Centro de Arte Santa Monica. Barcelona
03.06 Recerca i Disseny. Elisava. Barcelona
11.05 Diseño Visual. Universidad de Caldas. Manizales
11.05 Artrónica. Bogotá
06.05 Idensitat. Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona
05.05 Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow
05.05 Designinart. Fringe. Gothenburg
05.05 Creative Entrepreneurs Club. Glasgow
03.05 Bellas Artes. Universitat de Barcelona
12.04 Ciencias Comunicación. Universitat Autònoma. Barcelona
11.04 Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne
09.04 Acto Elisava. L'Auditori. Barcelona
03.04 eQuiliBristas. ESDI CEU. Valencia
02.04 K3 School of Art, Culture and Communication. Malmö
11.03 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. London
11.03 Interaction Design. Royal College of Art. London
11.03 AIGA Experience Design. The Design Council. London
10.03 e-Culture Fair 2. Amsterdam
06.03 Philosophical Conversations. Interaction-Ivrea
02.03 Artistic Strategies for the Networks. Atelier Nord. Oslo
11.02 Open Doors Grand Prix. Doors of Perception. Amsterdam
07.02 Designing Interactive Systems. British Museum. London
05.02 Sixth International Browserday. Amsterdam
04.02 Computer Human Interaction. Minneapolis
04.02 Jornadas de Ingeniería Informática. UCAB. Caracas
10.00 Lightness. Doors of Perception. Amsterdam
05.00 Third International Browserday. Amsterdam
03.00 Computer Human Interaction. Den Haag

publications

01.06 Invisible Cities. Recerca i Disseny. Elisava. Barcelona
10.03 Design Your Own Network. Ubicomp Proceedings. Seattle
06.02 Box. Research Thesis. Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
09.00 Interfaces for Understanding. MA Thesis. RCA. London

catalogues

11.06 Offjetos. Exhibition catalogue. Barcelona
03.06 Idensitat. Exhibition catalogue. Barcelona
11.05 Artrónica. Exhibition catalogue. Bogotá
11.05 Experimenta Design. Exhibition catalogue. Lisbon
11.04 Canarias Mediafest. Exhibition catalogue. Las Palmas
12.03 Interaction Design Almanacco. Interaction-Ivrea
11.03 e-Culture Fair 2. Exhibition catalogue. Amsterdam
11.02 Open Doors Grand Prix. Doors of Perception. Amsterdam
09.02 Interplay. Electrohype. Exhibition catalogue. Malmö
06.01 The Show. Royal College of Art. Exhibition catalogue. London

awards | commissions

08.06 Production grant. City of Children. Berlin
05.06 Correspondances. Paris-Dakar
05-06 Production grant. Idensitat. Barcelona
11.04 Finalist. Canarias Mediafest. Las Palmas
04-05 Design Research Scholarship Enric Bricall. Elisava. Barcelona
02.04 Travel grant. Atelier Nord. Oslo
01-02 Research grant. Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
09.00 Artist in Residence. Mediamatic. Amsterdam
05.00 First Prize. Third International Browserday. Amsterdam

press

Ciberpaís, Neo2, El Mundo, El País, El País de las Tentaciones, La Vanguardia, Cinco Días, GQ, Vanidad, Man (Spain), Blueprint, FX, Icon (UK), Domus, Ottagono, Repubblica, Arquitettura, Idearium, Il Sole 24 hore (Italy), Wired, ArtForum (USA), Publish, Personal Computer Magazine, Planet Multimedia, TVM (Netherlands), Gulliver, Epok (France), iNetMag (Cheq Republic), Søg i Harddiskens, Kopenhagen.dk, Information.dk, Konsten, Go Morgen TV show (Denmark), Stockholms Fria Tidning, Svenska Dagblabladet (Sweden)

workshops

4x8
Fab Lab. Barcelona, 07
With Amy Sun. One week workshop creating objects from a plywood sheet with digital fabrication

Political Landscapes
Universidad Bolivariana. Medellín. 07
With Carlos Trilnick y Carlos Hernández. One week workshop with 120 students.

Fab'n'me
Fab Lab. Barcelona, 07
3 days introduction of digital fabrication techniques to teenagers.

Interaction Laboratory
Elisava. Barcelona, 07
2 months class with MA in Interaction Design students.

Shared Objects
Elisava. Barcelona, 07
With Martin Ruiz de Azúa. Six months final project with Product Design Students

Domesticated Appliances
Glasgow School of Art, 06
One week workshop with Product Design students

Bricotech
Elisava, Barcelona, 06
With Martin Ruiz de Azúa. Six months final project with Product Design Students

Electronics and Crafts
Glasgow School of Art, 05
One week workshop with Product Design students

Hybrid Spaces
PEI, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 05
One week workshop with Architecture and Design students

Lo tech vs Hi tech
Ecole cantonale d'art de Laussane, 04
With Roger Ibars. One week workshop with Media and Interaction Design

Box workshop
Interaction-Ivrea, 03
Directed by Bill Verplank and Massimo Banzi. 4 weeks workshop for MA students

academic

Royal College of Art. London
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. London
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne
Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow
Visual Communication Design. Arts Academy. Split
MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Cambridge
K3 School of Art, Culture and Communication. Malmö
Escuela Superior de Diseño Industrial. Valencia
Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny. Barcelona
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Barcelona
Bellas Artes. Universitat de Barcelona
Ciencias de la Comunicación. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Programa de Estudios Internacionales. Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá
Departamento de Arte. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogota
Diseño Visual. Universidad de Caldas. Manizales
Universidad Bolivariana. Medellin
Universidad Nacional. Medellin
UCAB. Caracas

art, design and research

Mediamatic. Amsterdam
Fab Lab. Barcelona
Doors of Perception. Amsterdam
Virtueel Platform. Amsterdam
e-Culture Fair 2. Amsterdam
Atelier Nord. Oslo
Convivio Interaction Design Summer School
Electrohype. Malmo
Fab Lab. MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. Boston
Innovation Labs. Copenhagen
Centro Pablo. La Habana
Festival Internacional de la Imagen. Manizales
Interactive Institute. Gothenburg
The Lighthouse. Glasgow
Creative Entrepreneurs Club. Glasgow
DesignersBlock. London
Oxo Tower. London
The Design Council. London
AIGA Experience Design. London
Sabisa. Berlin
Hangar. Barcelona
Galería H2O. Barcelona
Idensitat. Barcelona
Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt. Madrid
Gaw Lab. Dakar
Dak'Art Off Biennale. Dakar
Artrónica. Bogota
ExperimentaDesign. Lisbon
ISEA Zero One San Jose
Canarias Mediafest. Las Palmas
Next. Copenhagen
Ubicomp. Seattle

people

Neus Bruira
Karen Dermineur
Marika Dermineur
Anna Kindvall
Heiko Hansend and Helen Evans
Crispin Jones
Casey Reas
William Ngan
Ben Hooker
Rory Hamilton
Gillian Crampton Smith
Boris Muller
Roger Ibars
Hector Serrano
Andres Burbano
Antonio Yemail
Hernando Barragán
Rob van Krannenburg
Margot Jacobs
Kristina Andersen
Pilar Echeverria
Anne Roquigny
Jean Baptiste Labrunne
Jaka Zeleznikar
Kristine Bergaust
Martín Ruiz de Azúa
Xavi Hurtado
Katty Barac
Indri Tululsan
Jonah Brucker Cohen
Noam Toram
Jimmy Leuizaue
James Auger

netobjects
Collaboration with Serrano

. London, 03

netObjects evolve around eight fictional characters fascinated with different types of content. netObjects are designed for them, stereotypes of media consumers. netObjects are real products for today, for everyday use by people who seldom get online through the computer screen.

Photography by mocho

Project site www.dosislas.org/netobjects

Press release netobjects.pdf 1.4Mb

press clips

Fat Wire Report

Spy. November 03. Nico Macdonald

Broadband is only discussed in the context of PCs being proactively used by people. The report ignores the idea of IP-enable devices and displays in the home, and it implicitly endorsed the idea that people should organise themselves around technology (the PC) rather than technology being designed around people. The netObjects project presented at a recent AIGA Experience Design by Victor Viña and Héctor Serrano suggest a radically concept for Internet mediated information.

NetGains

Blueprint. January 04. Grant Gibson

At a time when companies appear obsessed with multifunctionality, netObjects is a beguilingly straightforward idea. Dealing with an assortment of topics such as sex, finding a partner, money and gossip, take eight everyday objects, connect them to the internet using wireless networks, then only give each object one very simple and specific function. [...] It’s about highly edited information in forms that are easily recognisable and simple to use. The result is one of the best design exhibitions I’ve seen in a very long time. [...] netObjects manages to be surprising yet realistic. You may not have seen anything quite like the products on display, but if Habitat started stocking them tomorrow, they would’t look out of place.

La red de tu secreto

La Vanguardia. December 03. Josep Sandoval

El artista trabaja hoy en día conjugando las nuevas tecnologías, una mirada del diseño al ciberespacio con elementos del mañana. [...] Así todo un universo tecnológicamente curioso repleto de terminales periféricos bajo los más domésticos aspectos. Una labor compleja donde el objeto habitual es la transmisión wi-fi (conexión sin cables) de cualquier servicio que pueda suministrar la red.

In mostra i netObjects: come il web entra nelle case
Repubblica. November 03. Valentina Raggi

Spacciati come oggetti reali e perfettamente funzionanti, i netobjects, infatti, non sono altro che oggetti di uso comune rivisitati: le forme rispecchiano il contenuto che essi incorporano, dando vita a questi strani accessori. Gli archetipi della nostra società, nel loro nuovo connubio con il mondo della rete, restano così; sempre attuali e indispensabili. Insomma la proposta è quella di sperimentare una via alternativa per accedere da casa ai contenuti online.

the new in the old

Softopia. December 03. John Chris Jones

but the surprise is to find these new things,
computer presences
inside the structures of things very old
the things you find in fairy tales

this is something I did not expect in my 50 years acquaintance with the presence of computing and the expectation of a magic that is both rational and new
Is this concealment in the old a new subtlety or is it loss of nerve?

Perhaps it is both
- the integration of new-and-old in the postmodern -
the surprising way in which a new stage of historical reality can contradict what preceded it... ?

shows

09.05 My World, New Craft. ExperimentaDesign. Lisbon
03.05 The Lighthouse. Glasgow
12.04 Next. Base Camp. Copenhagen
10.04 Canarias Mediafest. Las Palmas
04.04 Designers Block. Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Milano
02.04 Electrohype-ROM. Malmö
12.03 Galería H2O. Barcelona
11.03 Mallside Gallery. Oxo Tower. London
10.03 e-Culture Fair 2. de Balie. Amsterdam

talks

03.05 Creative Entrepreneurs Club. Glasgow
04.04 eQuiliBristas. ESDI CEU. Valencia
02.04 K3 School of Art, Culture and Communication. Malmö
11.03 Royal College of Art.London
11.03 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. London
11.03 AIGA Experience Design. The Design Council. London
10.03 e-Culture Fair 2. Melkweg. Amsterdam

netobjects press coverage

box
Interaction-Ivrea. 02-03

Research project looking at physical devices linked by wireless networks. The project provided a tool-kit to allow non-technical people to design personal networks. Box deconstructs the networks and sets out to understand the behavior of information structures.

Project website

Workshop website

Box. Open System to Design Your Own Network

UbiComp Proceedings. Seattle 03

press clips

Do It Yourself Networking
Domus. October 03. Francesca Picci

For Victor Vina, the ever-wider use of information networks (especially in the wireless applications) for working, playing and communicating, requires a careful testing of the opportunities opened by these technologies, favouring spontaneous uses and sparking reactions difficult to foresee. The Internet has accustomed us to connect people and information in every part of the world, whereas Vina's project uses it also to connect objects. In practise Vina has developed a kit to create personal networks. For this particular type of do-it-yourself communication he constructed a model for use made with generic devices and an online interface. The platform enables people with no particular technical expertise to experiment with and design interaction between physical devices linked by wireless network. [...] Although it may still be utopian to think of being able to connect any electronic device to create networks for pleasure, it is nevertheless useful to imagine interconnecting and experimenting with all the possible types of media and machines in order to better understand the behaviour of information structures. By isolating and abstracting the basic elements of which they are composed, this project is intended to encourage the creation of networks that link objects, online information and above all people.

Symposing
Freegorifero. December 03. Fabio Sergio

[...] In other words interaction design might be facing the difficult task of breaking new ground when it comes to formalized knowledge practices, and we could we be looking at a hypernodal model, where value is to be found in the connectors, not in the nodes. Excitingly complex.

I'd be tempted to say that no project epitomizes all of the above better than Victor Vina's Box research project. Atomized features connected to create a whole that's bigger than the sum of the parts. Built-in open-ness, decentralization, flexibility, adaptivity. Design disappearing in the definition of potential relationships among the boxes, made visible once again by the interaction between the system and its actors/users. Stable structural principles and compositional freedom.

Philosophical Conversations
Interaction-Ivrea. June 03. Proffesor Diego Marconi

[...] We are invited to invent our own boxes, to redesign or modify the network. We are told that technology and implementation are not the point. We are advised that suggested applications are just examples and I'm sure that the author would be glad to add that these particular applications are not the point either. So what's the point?

The point, we are told, is the model: It is the abstract structure of movable but localised boxes connected with information and communication processing networks. We are invited to reflect on the model, to think what these individual units or boxes could do, or how a network could be designed, and so on. In other words, we are invited to think about information and communication on the background of present day technology. We are invited to reflect on basic concepts as collecting information, input, output, recording, transmission, archive, and so forth. As a basis for such reflection we are offered a very abstract design. Not so abstract as to be indifferent to the essentials of today's technology, but enough to allow for different feelings. [...] So, imagining what a system of boxes could do, amounts to designing an actual system that could serve actual purposes, and in this respect Box is a template for a project rather than a project. It is a tool for designing systems.

UbiComp Reviews
Seattle. June 03.

The question of how to allow end-user configuration of functionally simple modules into more complex configurations for potentially ephemeral applications is definitely a relevant issue for the UbiComp community. [...] To comment on the research itself for a moment: The strengths of the Box system seems to me to be the elegance of design (of both the physical modules and the online interface), the focus on shared/community configuration, and the focus on rapid prototyping with physical objects. [...] Box is clearly a provocative project that, while addressing common issues, seems to highlight various elements of the interaction and construction of flexible personal modular networks by its abstract nature.

shows

06.03 Technology for Everyday. Interaction-Ivrea
07.02 Work in Progress. Interaction-Ivrea

talks

06.03 Philosophical Conversations. Interaction-Ivrea
11.02 Open Doors Grand Prix. Doors of Perception. Amsterdam
07.02 Designing Interactive Systems. British Museum. London
05.02 Sixth International Browserday. Amsterdam
04.02 Computer Human Interaction. Minneapolis
03.02 Jornadas de Ingeniería Informática. UCAB. Caracas

flux
Royal College of Art. London, 01

Flux is a browser for search engines. It is composed by a structure of 16 modules which present real time search engine queries performed by users around the world. Each query can be followed by simple interaction with these modules. Through changing patterns of discreet data units, Flux reflects on the very nature of the Web and information technologies.

On exhibition, Flux connected with 2 million users, displaying 15 million search results.

Video: Flux at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

press clips

5 points about digital art. Interview with Andreas Broegger

Kopenhagen dk. June 03. Thomas Peterson

As a 'focal point' we could take Victor Vina's work Flux. This work combines several different features which I find characteristic of net based art at the present, in relation to the earlier net art all the way back from 1994 and most of the end of the decade. [...] Flux contains traits characteristic of a lot of net art in recent years. Flux looks rather good, data is encapsulated in sort of miniature minimalist metal boxes, there is an excellent idea behind it, i.e. checking the pulse of our use of the internet by tapping into a search engine, this takes place through a physical interface designed by the artist, and finally there is a typical pointing to something secret and border breaking (the illegal) as part of the role of net art.

Dos españoles, entre los 16 elegidos para la bienal de Arte Electrónico de Suecia
Ciberpaís. November 02. Roberta Bosco y Stefano Caldano

Viña presenta Flux, un navegador para los motores de búsqueda, que se presenta en una instalación de 16 módulos con una pantalla de cristal líquido, una luz interna y un sensor táctil. Cada módulo conecta con los internautas en tiempo real, mostrando lo que éstos buscan en la red. De esta manera, Flux se convierte en un barómetro actualizado de Internet, que muestra los distintos intereses, lenguajes y contenidos que prevalecen en este medio, representando de manera dinámica el flujo de información que se produce a través de las redes.

Electrohype 2002
Stockholms Fria Tidning. November 02. Ida Thunström

Victor Vina från Storbritannien har poängterat just dessa faktorer i sitt verk 'Flux', där han kopplat upp en dator till sökverktyget Google och vidarekopplat den till 16 små kromfärgade moduler vilka visar den ständiga ström av sökord som skrivs in på platsen. Men Vina konkretiserar inte bara några av internets abstrakta funktioner, utan hans verk når också en annan dimension där det diskuterar postmodernistiska begrepp som individen kontra systemet och personligt kontra offentligt.

shows

05.03 Being There. Not-TV. London
03.03 Web Biennial. Istambul
11.02 Fundamental Patterns - Peripheral Basics. Javamuseum
09.02 Interplay. Electrohype. Malmö
06.02 The Tube. Platform for New Media. London
03.02 IBID Projects (1-6). London
11.01 Institute of Contemporary Arts. London
06.01 The Show. Royal College of Art. London

hyperspc
Royal College of Art. London, 00

Hyperspc is a live information space that allows users to download information from the web, filter it and structure it in a meaningful way. They can cut and paste information, create their own text, group and create their own links both between text in the space and outside in the World Wide Web.

Project site

Hyperspc was selected winner of the Third International Browserday, Amsterdam, 00.

jury report

This entree is not only very original and technically accomplished, but it also scores heavily on aesthetic appeal and usability. This is a tool one would want to use immediately and it's perfect for a weblog.

press clips

Just Browsing
ArtForum. October 00. Benedict Seymour

The competitors' alternatives to the graphical model registered a broad network of utopianism, desire, and anxiety about the potential of new media. Advocates of text-based utility and design clarity (Victor Vina's elegant and practical Hyperspc project, a prizewinner this year, stores text in linked squares on the desktop) vied with evangelists of visually and metaphorically enriched environments.

Browsing the Future
Wired News. May 00. Douglas Heinghartner

While the first Browserday two years ago focused on the raging browser wars, the gathering now addresses more complex issues such as merger-fever, the danger of proprietary formats, the challenge of open source,and contrasting views regarding minimalist design and media-richness. Browser-lite proponents question whether a new visual interface is the right way forward, suggesting that a word may be worth a thousand pictures on the current flash-happy Web. [...] The winner was Victor Vina of London's Royal College of Art for his text-filtering HyperSPC project, which prunes information back to its bare roots.

Arte-Red
El País. August 00. Roberta Bosco y Stefano Calda

Hyperspc es una interfaz abierta y flexible que permite al usuario descargar la información de Internet, para filtrarla y estructurarla según sus necesidades. A pesar de tratarse de un proyecto funcional y técnicamente viable, por el momento es tan sólo un prototipo que se puede descargar desde el sitio de Viña; dependerá de las empresas y de los programadores independientes convertirlo en una aplicación acabada.

Browserday Report
netTime. May 00. Fran Illich

Y lo que me parece más interesante de ella es cómo hace una distinción entre lo textual y lo gráfico, que en sí no es nada, hasta que se hace una evaluación de la ecomomía del tiempo del usuario y de la necesidad de encontrar lo esencial, que no es otra cosa que la información almacenada en databases masivas. Y es justo de esta premisa donde Victor Viña parte para desarrollar su browser.

presentations

04.02 III Jornadas de Ingeniería Informática. UCAB. Caracas
12.00 Under Construction. Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
10.00 Doors of Perception 6: Lightness. Amsterdam
05.00 Third International Browserday. Amsterdam
03.00 Computer Human Interaction. Den Haag

fluid
Royal College of Art. London, 01

Fluid is an interface which deals with the cognitive processes that govern human memory. It joins the functionality of a diary, a scheduler, a blog, a chat space and a story-telling machine. It redefines the notion of time and the way we interact with the data we generate with our computers.

Download: Fluid for Mac OSX

press clips

From The White Cube to The Black Box to The Personal Computer and out in The Grey Wide Open
Localmotives. May 03, Jan Inge Reilstad

If I had been aware of Victor Vina’s work on the application Fluid, I would naturally have written the report as detailed notes entered in real time into this unusual piece of software. Fluid is a text and image processing application structured around a timescale offering levels of detail anywhere between years and seconds, displaying all entries in a flow of time right down to the second of its creation. On the other hand, the application is engineered to eventually forget. Any entry will ultimately disappear from its memory, sooner or later. Thus, Victor’s motivation is in line with the RAM program of reapproaching new media, manifested here as an attempt to humanize the modes of thought of the computer. Fluid is a work which exposes differences between humanity and technology, and poses the question of whether we have gone too far in technologizing human sensibilities in relation to the scales of the new media.

shows

08.03 Nordic Live Art. Gothenburg's Kunsthall. Gothenburg
02.03 RAM2. Artistic Strategies for the Networks. Atelier Nord. Oslo

micro 360º
FIAT Advance Design Center and Interaction Ivrea. Ivrea, 04

A car with no hand-book, designed to learn how to be used by the user. Micro 360º is a concept imagined in collaboration with FIAT and Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.

Fiat and an interdisciplinary team of designers spent four weeks creating a new interactive paradigm that would unite FIAT’s brand values with the potential for new interactive experiences for the users of FIAT’s MicroCar, a concept urban vehicle.

The team produced a range of concepts in the areas of context-awareness, netwoked cars, self-expression, in-car controls: driving, navigation, communication. The final concept, Micro 360º — 360 degrees of interaction — embodies the vision of the team that makes the interactive experience a FIAT brand signature.

Micro 360º is a in interactive touch-sensitive surface that replaces the conventional dashboard. It surrounds the driver and the passengers. The car controls related to driving, system telematics, entertainment and anything else you can imagine are flexible on the surface of the display.

Thanks to Project Bureau for text and pictures.

credits

Natasha Sopieva
David Slocombe
Simona Maschi
Dario Buzzini
Crispin Jones
Ruth Kikin-Gil
Ivar Martin Lyngve
Laura Polazzi
David Slocombe
Victor Vina
Salvatore Cacciatore
Roberto Giolito
Roberto Montanari

feed
With Athena Anagnostopoulos. Royal College of Art. London, 01

Information technologies provide the ability to gather real time information from multiple sources. Feed is an illustration of an autonomous intelligent interface; it combs the WWW for local headlines from cities around the world, creating a constant stream of data in flux.

Video: Feed at the Royal College of Art, London

shows

02.01 Interim Show. Royal College of Art. London

anymeta
Mediamatic. Amsterdam, 00

Artist in residence at Mediamatic Foundation, working in the early stages of the design of anyMeta, a publishing system which generates automatic relationships, providing every entry with a related context. dosislas was in charge of concept generation, interaction guidelines, database design and graphic layout.

Project site: www.mediamatic.net

city of children

Workshop with 8 years old kids to ampilfy their view of public space and enhance individual and collective expression. The project gives low technologies to children and promotes active participation.

Barcelona, 05.
With Natalia Naranjo and Elena Perera. Commisioned by Idensitat

City of Children was first developed in Alta Segarra Primary School, Calaf, Barcelona, in collaboration with Natalia Naranjo and Elena Perera and commisioned by Idensitat

, a program that calls for projects, promotes interventions and proposes debates in the field of creativity linked to public space. Funded by Generalitat de Catalunya, Diputaciò de Barcelona and Ajuntament de Calaf. Thanks to Ramon and Oriol. Special thanks to children and teacher Fernando, Ajuntament de Calaf and CEIP Alta Segarra.

A public performance consisting of real time projections of children's drawings on a church facade took place in Calaf's main square in May 06. The project was exhibited at El Casino, Manresa in April 06.

Berlin, 06.
With Paula Kramer, Sabisa. Financial support from Respectabel.

A second workshop took place at Gesundbrunnen Primary School in Berlin, a collaboration with Paula Kramer from Sabisa, an organization which develops art projects for social change. Financial support from Respectabel, a program from Berlin's city council promoting democracy and tolerance and fighting against racism. Special Thanks to Frau Ann, Paula and Ruben.

A screening of the children's films was held at a national youth meeting JugendFORUM in November 2006 and aired on local community television.

Manizales, 06.
Commisioned by Festival Internacional de la Imagen

A third workshop took place within Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, in April 07, at Casa de la Cultura de Chipre. Special thanks to Felipe and everyone who participated in the workshop.

A public performance with real time projection of children's drawings on a public building facade took place in Manizales's main square in May 07.

Idensitat 05 exhibition brochure

talks

04.06 Questioning Public Art. Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona

shows

04.06 Idensitat. El Casino. Manresa

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press clips

Nativos Digitales
Diario del Norte, Argentina. May 07. Susana Pérez Tort

[...] con la experiencia de otro académico español que pidió que su ponencia fuera el trabajar haciendo una experiencia del uso de tecnologías de poco costo, con niños del lugar. Era Víctor Viña, académico de Barcelona. La noche previa al cierre del encuentro (a esas latitudes es noche a las seis de la tarde), los niños con sus padres hicieron la experiencia de “dibujar” sobre la pared del Palacio de la Gobernación de Caldas. Por cierto no hicieron graffiti sobre las paredes de un pulcrísimo edificio público, dibujaban en sus cartulinas con las cerillas escolares y con una cámara, sus “obras” se reflejaban sobre los muros del Palacio, produciendo lo que los “grandes” llamamos una “intervención urbana” y que para esos niños era a la vez juego y experiencia estética, nexo con la comunidad, nuevas experiencias de arte y tecnologías (muy sencillas). Hubo niños que exploraron el viejo juego de comunicarse a través de una lata unida a otra lata por un hilo y experimentaron “arte interactivo”. En días anteriores, niños de ocho a nueva años años portando cascos que parecían de mineros (que escondían micrófonos) y una mochila (que escondía una cámara) pasearon por las calles de Manizales haciendo entrevistas, pequeños cineastas, productores visuales, periodistas. Los niños fueron protagonistas de un aprendizaje multimedia, con mínimos medios técnicos, en la era de información en la que viven y sin tiza o pizarrón. El congreso cerró con la proyección de la obra de los niños, audiovisual, tecnológica e infinitamente humana, una forma más de integración y reconstrucción de un tejido social quebrado en Colombia, como y en tantos otros países.

L'art i la transformació de les ciutats.
El País. Spain. May 06. Roberta Bosco

[...] Sens dubte l'experiencia més innovadora ha estat La ciutat dels nens, que va involucrar un grup de nens de vuit anys del CEIP Alta Segarra de Calaf. Amb l'objectiu d'entendre la percepció que els menuts tenen de l'espai i incitarlos a expressar la seva opinió, se'ls va equipar amb una mini càmera integrada en un casc, un micrófon per enregistrar sons i comentaris, i una motxilla amb un petit monitor per reproduir les imatges filmades en temps real. "Els comentaris recollits van des d'allò anecdòtic fins allò social. Molts dels entrevistats expressen peticions concretes, de manera que mitjançant les noves tecnologies els nens es converteixen en un canal de reivindicació ciutadana i l'espai públic és retornat a la seva funció original de fòrum per el debat i l'expressió d'opinions", explica Viña, que properament realitzará el projecte a Berlín.

invisible cities
Elisava. Barcelona, 04-05

Invisible Cities investigates the introduction of open digital networks in public space. the project speculates with a future where public domain is integrated with the streets, where the public becomes manager, producer and provider of social capital through urban networks. Invisible Cities was developed with support from the International Design Research Scholarship Enric Bricall.

publications

Project published in the book Recerca i Disenny, published by Elisava Escola Superior de Disseny. Special thanks to Jordi Berrio for guidance and critical reviews of the research.

Cinc models de recerca
Recerca i Disseny. March, 06. Jordi Berrio

El present treball és una recerca, suggestió i al·lusió als nous espais virtuals que configuren les xarxes actuals. Els carrers de les nostres ciutats són espais públics dissenyats; són àmbits en els quals s’hi desenvolupa la vida. Aquests àmbits són conseqüència del tipus de vida que fa la gent que hi habita, però, alhora, determinen els moviments i els encontres en tenir una estructura rígida: són, doncs, causa i efecte alhora. Les xarxes digitals redissenyen les velles ciutats en una malla de noves relacions comunicatives, i forçosament això tindrà conseqüències en les formes de vida del futur. L’investigador parteix de la base que, per un cantó, les ciutats cada vegada són més grans i, per l’altre, ha una explosió en l’equipament i l’ús del telèfon sense fi l, una proliferació de dispositius amb connectivitat com Wi-Fi i Bluetooth i, naturalment, Internet. Són molt interessants les reflexions i les idees que ens proporciona sobre l’evolució dels espais públics en el moment actual, quan conflueix l’espai públic tradicional amb els nous espais dibuixats per les xarxes de comunicació, els quals es presenten en forma híbrida.

En definitiva, el treball es proposa investigar quins són aquests espais híbrids dibuixats per les xarxes digitals, en conjunció amb els espais públics de les ciutats, i de quina manera es poden fer visibles. Al propòsit de la recerca s’afegeix una dimensió eticopolítica, en plantejar-se també de quina manera les xarxes digitals que s’obren actualment es poden fer accessibles a tothom. S’afirma que hi ha unes ciutats invisibles que podrien ser visualitzades a través d’aquestes noves tecnologies. D’aquesta manera, i en un pla social, es podria donar rostre i veu a certs col·lectius que actualment no poden accedir als mitjans de comunicació; això vol dir, entre altres coses, que els seus interessos no són tinguts en compte pel conjunt de la població. Es tracta de gitanos, gent de la tercera edat i altres col·lectius marginats. També es proposa crear uns sistemes de publicació de notícies, comentaris de tota mena o àdhuc poemes per uns canals que escapin als controls professionals del sistema. Amb poques paraules, del que es tracta és de donar veu als que no la tenen.

A tall de conclusió general, us diré que som davant d’un exercici d’aprofundiment de les tècniques del disseny, de proposar solucions innovadores als temes del nostre temps. Però afegiré que també trobareu una ullada intel·ligent a l’impacte de les noves tecnologies comunicatives en el disseny dels espais públics urbans.

house of stars
With Roberto Pais. La Palma, 06

Proposal for La Palma's Biosphere Reserve to create a network of amateur observatories attached to rural housings, emphasizing the island's clear sky as a natural and sustainable resource, promoting respectful tourism and technological innovation.

The proposal is currently under financial research and expects to be functioning by 2010.

mosquitoes' tracker
With Henri Sagna. Dakar, 06

Senegalese artist Henri Sagna creates mosquitoes sculptures, reflecting on health problems in most parts of Africa due to the dissemination of diseases through moustiques' bites.

One of four binomes within the program Correspondances

, curated by KRN

, dosislas and Henri Sagna will collaborate, reusing components from discarded electronics devices as mobile phones and solar calculators to add behaviors to the sculptures. The resulting pieces will simulate the life cycle of the mosquitoes, will react to human presence and changes in the environmnet and will repel real mosquitoes using ultrasonic sounds.

The project was presented at Gaw Lab, during Dak'Art Off Biennale, May 06.

Project supported by incident.net, Gaw Lab, Foundation Sonatel and Goethe Institut.

low-tech vs high-tech
With Roger Ibars

. écal. Laussane, 05

One week workshop with Media and Interaction Design students.

The wokshop made emphasis on the re-engineering of discarded electronic devices and appliances. The workshop introduced physical computing to 3rd year students, combining both high-tech and low-tech tools and techniques.

Final presentation: Video 7.5Mb

projects

Phone box
Gabriel Walt, Pierre-Abraham Rochat. Video 7.3Mb

Best example of mixing low-tech and hi-tech. Rather complex project for one week workshop which came out fully working. Although further tuning would be needed, the basic principle is there and the result is both engaging and ambiguos, analog and digital.

Wizard Object
Patricia Armada. Video 6.9Mb

Carefully crafted, both in terms of shapes, electronics and behaviors. First steps towards use of basic stamp and code to generate complexity. Good development of a simple concept iterating thinking and making.

Blow Communication
Mathias Forbach. Video 5.5mb

This project is simple, fun and magic, gets a smile out from everyone. This kind of magic is difficult to achieve, so well done!

Sound Aggression
Valentin Kissling. Video 6.7Mb

Great performance, quite intense effect. This is one of those projects that you should experience to feel how it sounds like... You would expect aggression to your ears but it is not....

electronics and crafts
Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow, 06

One week workshop with Product Design students.

Design of electronic products is one of the most intriguing and unexplained fields in which we find a new kind of craft. It is clear that craft in many senses —ingenuity, brilliant technical manipulation, deliberate and unique personal expression— does exist. Otherwise all digital products would be equally compelling, which they are not. The workshop introduced low-tech strategies to craft interactive objects. Different models for creation, analisys and critical lecture of electronic products were also discussed.

projects

The Anti-Alarm Clock

Where you would normally respond to a regular alarm clock, this alarm clock responds to the user. The product is not telling you to wake up, you are telling the alarm clock that you are awake.

Inverse Addiction
James Montgomery, Karina Moore, Gillian Brown, Lucy Rack, Graham Kelly, Lauren Argenta

The packet becomes dependent on the user: It get's 'cravings' and 'seeks attention' after a certain period of time to emulate the addiction that the user has. We hope that this irony will heighten the awareness of cigarette dependency.

Silentophone
Emma Innes, Suah Suh, Hanna Örnskär, Mhairi Sharp, Julien McHardy

A silent megaphone that blows bubbles when you scream, ideal for pacific demonstrations.

Message in a Bottle
Alessia Genova, Nils Volkmann, Jennifer Fraser, Roberta Knox, Ayako Shimuzu, Abby Humphreys

It is often difficult to form an emotional attachment to clinical looking hi-tech electronic products. Our message in a bottle aims to bring a more physical and emotional element to electronic communication, and encourage greater social interaction.

Message in a Bag
Charlotte Alguero, Rowena Blair, Anna Hammond, Mar Sandbakk, Fee Schmidt-Soltau, Whitney Stewart

Exploring methods of communication with special friends in a subtle way through the use of objects which normally go unnoticed. A simple paper bag could be used to let someone know you're thinking of them...

The Magic Question
Eva Sumgi, Lyndsay Watt, Louise Martine, Ian MacMillan, Charlie Goodger, Brigitte Bjorge

The Magic Question is a marvel of modern day technology, taken from the existing idea of a 'feely box', but transformed into an uncomfortable, sinister and fundamentally tense experience.

hybrid landscapes
Universidad Javeriana. Bogotá, 05

One week workshop with Architecture and Design Students.

The workshop introduced physical computing techniques used to visualize hybrid objects and spaces in between the analog and the digital, the real and the fictonal. Different design strategies were used to provoke debate and reflection about the ubiquitous presence of networks for communication, surveillance, social capital exchange and personal interaction in different spaces, territories and landscapes.

Thanks to Alejandro, Illich and Antonio Yemail for video and pictures.

Project descriptions coming soon...

domesticated appliances
With Katty Barac. Product Design. Glasgow School of Arts, 06

box workshop
Directed by Bill Verplank and Massimo Banzi. Interaction-Ivrea, 03

Box research project developed by dosislas at Interaction-Ivrea was used as a conceptual framework for a 4 weeks workshop to introduce physical computing to MA students.

Physical Interaction Design involves the design of objects for sensing (usually humans) and displaying information (to all our senses). It involves making new devices with embedded sensors, electronics, microcontrollers and communication. The best way to do Physical Interaction Design is with rapid iteration of working prototypes.

We are interested in creating new styles of interaction, which will depend on new controls and displays. Ubiquitous computing has not settled on standard devices or a common style of interaction. In fact, the idea of embedded computing is that we might use almost anything that can become sensors and actuators.

We will focus on personal interactions and communication-based applications, using ambient displays and tangible controls. By ambient we mean background or peripheral information, which is more likely cool or fuzzy or emotional than hot or precise or definitive. Tangible interactions involve explicit contact with hands and bodies not remote sensing and inference.

projects

Whispering to Birds
Belmer Negrillo, Luther Thie

Whispering to Birds enables a poetic interactive communication between a human being and imaginary birds. Using a leaf as interactive artifact, the 'whisperer' lightly brushes or taps the input box. The outbox analyzes the stimulii for a specific amount of time to set a behavior, and then reacts by choosing a combination of 1 to 7 birdsounds and a motor-controlled 'flapping' of wings.

Inflicted
EyalFried, Giorgio Olivero, Tal Drori

Can simple objects demonstrate a behavior that would be perceived by us, human spectators, as emotional? With mundane cart boxes at our disposal, we tried to face the challenges utilizing the powerful qualities of pain as a primary emotional mechanism. We chose pain both for its duality of physical (explicit) and mental (implicit) characteristics, and the expressive and vivid nature of its emblematic responses.

Just Boxes
Davide Agnelli, Daniele Mancini

What can you do with just two identical boxes? What can you learn, what can you explore? We hid different technologies in our anonymous brown boxes and let the people play. People discovered soon that if the boxes are placed one close to the other you can listen to music, or to a poem, a story. What determines the output? The relations between the boxes: which face is facing which face?

VooBox
Michal Rinott, Peggy Thoeny, Simona Brusa Pasque

Voodoo happens at a distance. It's an intense emotional attempt to influence and control something remote. It belongs to a world of spiritual, dark rituals. Voobox explores the contrast between the spiritual connotation of the input and the technological connotation of the output. It poses the question - who is in control?

WishBox
Marc Escobosa, Tarun Jung Rawat

Too often new technologies render interpersonal communication more shallow rather than deep. This project represents an attempt to show how sharing subtle personal information between two remote friends can provide the friends with new occasions to spend time together.

Genetic Box
Aparna Rao, Raphael Meyert

Open the lid of the inbox... lift an egg and watch it light up. The outbox instantly responds with the sound of a rooster, as the outbox 'cracks' open and ejects confetti... alluding to the ejaculation that created the egg... out of which hatched the chicken... Reversal of casualty?