RE: [-empyre-] A thought on intimacy.

["Gregory Little" <glittle@oberlin.net>]

Angie's site is down.
More later.
Greg


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Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:37 PM
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Subject: [-empyre-] A thought on intimacy.


lET'S TAKE A CPUOLE WORKS IN CONTRAST.
Whoops...

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?

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