[-empyre-] A thought on intimacy.

["Patrick Lichty" <voyd@voyd.com>]

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Go to the (re)distributions show http://www.voyd.com/ia and look at Gregory
Chapuisat's Poke in contrast with Angie Waller's clip.fm.

Both illustrations play with the intimate nature of the PDA/IA.  However,
Poke plays with the PDA screen as a site of intimacy in which the user
caresses the screen like a loved one, and in clip.fm, the phone is used as a
channel through which uncomfortable communcations can be expressed.

Are both of these works dependent on their mode of interface with the
observer?  Could a cell phone be used to have a Poke-like intimacy, and
vice-versa?  What are the differences in the mode of interaction,
communication, and delivery of message, and how do these diverge from the
desktop?