Repurposing Bits and Pieces of the Digital

Šimbelis, Vygandas; Ferreira, Pedro; Vaara, Elsa Kosmack; Laaksolahti, Jarmo; Höök, Kristina

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“…With the computer now moving out of the professional con text, controlled by centrally identified requirements, and into the everyday life of individual users, com puter development moved from a strict functionalism to a broadened realization that interaction with com puters has more layers than mere task solving. This does not mean that questions regarding functionality have been removed from the agenda, but that they have been complemented with aesthetic aspects such as pleasure, enjoyment and user experience (Kao et al 2016, Simbelis et al 2016, Tractinsky et al 2000, Udsen and Jørgensen 2005. Thus, through the aes thetic turn, emphasis in the industry has shifted from centralized systems in professional contexts prior to the 1990s to decentralized use in multiple, diverse environments.…”

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The aesthetic turn: exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology

Åhman

2016

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Exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology T he arena for developing digital technology has undergone an aesthetic turn, broadening the focus from a functionalist approach producing centralized systems in the 1970s and 1980s to an increased awareness of the aesthetic aspects of the indi vidual user's interaction with technology in the 1990s and 2000s. Within the academic research fields studying digital technology (e.g. Human-Computer Inter action and Interaction Design) the aesthetic turn has resulted in a shift from a strong emphasis on user behaviour to an increased interest in aesthetic perspectives on the role of the designer, the design process, and the design material. Within these fields, aesthetics has often been interpreted as belonging to the realm of the individual; personal experiences such as pleasure, engagement, and emotions have been emphasized in both technology development and technology research. Aesthetics is not, however, only an individual phenomenon but also has relational and structural components that need to be acknowledged. Structural aspects of aesthetics condition the possibilities for individuals inter acting with digital technology. Thus, the tension between individual and relational aspects of aesthetics in digital technology also reflects a tension between freedom and limit ation; between change and permanence; between destabil izing and stabilizing forces.Such a broadened understanding of aesthetics offers a model of digital technology that roughly corresponds to Mark C. Taylor's definition of religion. Taylor argues that religion is constituted by, on the one hand, a figuring moment characterized by structural stability and universality, and, on the other hand, a disfiguring moment characterized by disruption, particularity, and change. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the aesthetic turn and Taylor's definition of religion to illustrate similarities between the two, suggesting possible religious dimensions of digital technology and how that can inform our understanding of people's interaction with digital technology.

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The aesthetic turn: exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology

Åhman

2016

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Collage-Inspired Dialogues on the Identities of Informal Academic Leaders for Learning

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Kortjass

2024

SpringerBriefs in Arts-Based Educational Research

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Synesthetic Experience in S T R A T I C

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Lundström

2018

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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How do we humanize digital interactive technology? One way is through our experience with technology. With S T R A T I C we present several post-digital concepts to discuss the relationship of the digital in regard to our human lives. We emphasize the synesthetic experience along with other aesthetic experiences and materiality issues with manifestations of the digital in the physical world, tangible approaches to sonic performances, or exposure of internal logics of technological processes. In this paper, we propose both exhibiting our work as an art installation and via a live performance. We regard it as being highly relevant to the topic of the TEI Arts Track exhibition: post-digital materiality at the intersection of the analog and the digital, and to its tangible aspects.

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Repurposing Bits and Pieces of the Digital

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

The aesthetic turn: exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology

The aesthetic turn: exploring the religious dimensions of digital technology

Collage-Inspired Dialogues on the Identities of Informal Academic Leaders for Learning

Synesthetic Experience in S T R A T I C

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