articulated leftovers

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Find a comfortable spot with a partner

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Pick up the headphones & pull them over your ears

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Reach out your hand & connect with the other person to begin listening

Themes

Language as a material
Presence / Absence
Empathy with interference
Intimacy (physical and otherwise)
Vulnerabilities communicated through a digital medium
Artifacts of a conversation

Participants engage in a narrative dialogue with the piece and with each other. Physical contact between participants activates the audio narrative and catalyses communication.

This work examines our evolving notions of technology's role in everyday communication and reconciles them with our preexisting framework of in-person communication. It also experiments with the different forms of an interface between us and automated objects. As an exploration leading into my thesis, this investigates empathy and intimacy in communication through physical contact. Articulated leftovers encourages conversation between humans and speaking digital objects.