A Conversation argues that the superficiality of digital interactions stems from their inability to match the nuance of physical experiences.
Set across four columns, fragments of a discussion are combined to indicate the experiential gap between physical interactions and their digital counterparts. While now accessible to a much larger online audience, the conversation becomes bastardised through its translation. Abstracted close-ups, unnamed speakers and the recounting of gestures are sterilised through the tightly ordered starkness of the white webpage.
Intentionally over-designed, the multi-faceted approach becomes nothing more than a cheap imitation of the participants’ physical interaction through its ability to capture only text and image. Thus, A Conversation contends the over reliance on textual information by digital interactions must be replaced by intuitive, multi-modal experiences for them to become more meaningful.
Supervised by Kate Mansell.
Set across four columns, fragments of a discussion are combined to indicate the experiential gap between physical interactions and their digital counterparts. While now accessible to a much larger online audience, the conversation becomes bastardised through its translation. Abstracted close-ups, unnamed speakers and the recounting of gestures are sterilised through the tightly ordered starkness of the white webpage.
Intentionally over-designed, the multi-faceted approach becomes nothing more than a cheap imitation of the participants’ physical interaction through its ability to capture only text and image. Thus, A Conversation contends the over reliance on textual information by digital interactions must be replaced by intuitive, multi-modal experiences for them to become more meaningful.
Supervised by Kate Mansell.