NRC Handelsblad (The
Netherlands)
October 29, 2003
Archined (The Netherlands)
'Vrolijke
Boel op e-culture fair'
October 30, 2003
'Bij netObjects zijn gewone alledaagse gebruiksvoorwerpen voorzien van
'intelligente informatie'. Zo geeft een koekkoeksklok ieder kwartier het
laatste nieuws waarbij de gebruiker de keus kan maken tussen 'links' of
'rechts' nieuws, een paraplu geeft de weersverwachting en een glas is
voorzien van een versterker zodat er beter door muren heen geluisterd
kan worden.'
Repubblica
(Italy)
'In
mostra i netObjects: come il web entra nelle case'
Valentina Raggi
November 9, 2003
'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.'
Idearium (Italy)
'Netobjects:
Oggetti ai confini della Rete'
Alessandra Sau
November 11, 2003
'La tecnica che si scontra con il quotidiano, e oggi il quotidiano è
la Rete, che ci trasporta in un mondo senza confini, che riduce le distanze
tra l’io e tutto lo scibile ad un solo click, una NetRealtà
che rende tutto apparentemente più facile, più raggiungibile.
Il mondo reale quindi, si trasforma in una sorta di prigione, dove le
sbarre sono rappresentate dai rapporti umani, dall’interazione,
dai limiti fisici, geografici, materiali. Da qui la ricerca del virtuale
nel reale e i NetObjects, che tentano di riprodurre la sconfinata virtualità
nella banale quotidianità.'
MAZ|NE Interactive
Digital Media (UK)
'e-culture Fair 2. Amsterdam'
November 17, 2003
'Everyday objects that have been integrated with network services that
relate to what they are. [...] These services are all existing, all this
information, swelling the web - we just need ways to see them. Who wouldn't
agree then that they would prefer to get their dating information out
of a beautiful secret box, than a laptop screen. Bringing the romance
back to interaction, and a lot of charm also.'
TVM magazine
(The Netherlands)
'netFuture'
December 2003,
FX Magazine (UK)
December 2003
Spy (UK)
'Fat
Wire Report'
Nico Macdonald
November 25, 2003
'Broadband is only discussed in the context of PCs being proactively used
by people. [...] it implicitly endorses 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.'
Softopia (UK)
'the
new in the old'
John Cris Jones
December 2, 2003
'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 '
European Arts Magazine (Italy)
December 9, 2003
El País.
(Spain)
'NetObjetos
en Gracia'
Roberta Bosco, Stefano Caldana
December 11, 2003
El País.
Ciberpaís (Spain)
'Llegan
a España los netobjetos'
'Roberta Bosco, Stefano Caldana
December 12, 2003
Cinco Días (Spain)
'Internet se integra en los objetos
cotidianos'
Rosario Correro
December 13, 2003
La Vanguardia
(Spain)
'La
red de tu secreto'
Josep Sandoval
December 14, 2003
'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.'
Blueprint (UK)
'Net Gains'
Grant Gibson
January 2004
'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 wouldn’t look out of place.'
Diseño Interior (Spain)
'Internet de andar por casa'
January 2004
'Para aquellos que juraron no acercarse jamas a un ordenador, los diseñadores
Victor Viña y Héctor Serrano han dado con el invento que introducirá internet
en los hogares de todos, incluídos sus más recalcitrantes detractores.
Objetos tan cotidianos como un vaso, un paraguas o un libro servirán ahora
como soportes para materializar contenidos de la red.'
MAN (Spain)
'Viña & Serrano Visión
de netfuturo'
Ana Dominguez
February 2004
'Se trata de hacer familiar lo inmaterial, de integrar las redes de información
en los objetos cotidianos. Intentamos que el mensaje no necesite expicación
previa. La colección es provocativa en cuanto se concibe para personajes
ficticios compulsivos con los que todos nos podemos identificar.'
dygnetRunt (Sweden)
February 2004
Computer Sweden (Sweden)
February 2004
Epok (France)
'Ils n'en font qu'a leur net'
February 2004 Issue
'Deux designers espagnols ont imaginé des objets destinés aus obsédés de
l'information rétifs aux nouvelles technologies. Résultat: huit proptypes
d'apparence banale, reliés a Internet par liaison Bluetooth ou Wi-Fi.'
Gulliver (France)
May 2004
Go Morgen (Denmark)
Danish National TV
December 1, 2004
Artificial (Denmark)
December 2004
Komputer (Denmark)
December 2004
Udatse (Denmark)
Sanne Pedersen
January 2005
Icon (UK)
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