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Talk to me
Paola Antonelli

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Talk to me
design and the communication between people and objects
Paola Antonelli ; [edited by Emily Hall]

Published 2011 by Museum of Modern Art, Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers in New York, N.Y .
Written in English.

About the Book

"Whether openly and actively or in subtle , subliminal ways, things talk to us. As the purpose of design has, in past decades, shifted away from mere utility toward meaning, objects and systems that were once charged only with being elegant and functional now have personalities. And thanks to the digital revolution, they have become very communicative, making our world newly interactive: a wristebad notifies us when we're getting dehydrated, animated creatures hide in the shadows of the objects on our desks, a wheat field calls out a salutation. Contemporary designers, in addition to giving objects form, function and meaning, now write the initial scripts that are the foundations for these useful and satisfying conversations. With nearly two hundred projects ranging from the microscopic to the cosmic, "Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects" explores design's new terrain:enhancing, communicative possibilities, embodying a new balance between technology and people, bringing technological break-throughs up or down to comfortable, understandable human scale. These projects include interfaces, websites, video games, devices, tools, charts, and information systems, on topics global and personal. Whether we are hanging out in a social network or listening to a radio sneeze, we are partaking of a newly metaphysical and expressive layer of interaction that is already enriching our future." -- p [4] of cover.

Table of Contents

Talk to me / Paola Antonelli
Objects
Nervous systems and anxious infrastructures / Jamer Hunt
I'm talking to you
Life
Design wonder stories: when speech is golden / Alexandra Midal
City
Conversations with the network / Khoi Vinh
Worlds
Reality is plenty, thanks: twelve arguments for keeping the naked eye naked / Kevin Slavin
Double entendre.

Edition Notes

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 24-Nov. 7, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Classifications

Library of Congress
TS171.4 .A58 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
207 p. :
Number of pages
207

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25173430M
ISBN 10
0870707965
ISBN 13
9780870707964
LC Control Number
2011927239
OCLC/WorldCat
721928452

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