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Re:Configuring Interface Culture – Digital Aesthetics in the Age of Pervasive Computing” Department of Aesthetic Studies Aarhus University Supervisor Søren Pold PhD dissertation by Lone Koefoed Hansen Submitted 12th Sept 2008 re:configuring interface culture – digital aesthetics in the age of pervasive computing [made with wordle.net] CONTENTS Acknowledgements .................................................................................................. 3! List of enclosed papers............................................................................................. 5! English summary ..................................................................................................... 7! Dansk resumé ........................................................................................................ 11! Part 1 ..................................................................................................................... 15! 1. Introduction....................................................................................................... 17! Outline of dissertation ....................................................................................... 19! 2. Researching digital technologies ....................................................................... 25! Experiencing digitality....................................................................................... 25! Studying software .............................................................................................. 28! 3. Artefactualities ................................................................................................... 31! Unstable digitality.............................................................................................. 31! New interfaces ................................................................................................... 36! Art or design?..................................................................................................... 43! 4. Connections and commonalities........................................................................ 53! Rephrasing my papers....................................................................................... 53! Common denominators..................................................................................... 57! 5. Deconstructing transparency............................................................................. 59! Automation........................................................................................................ 60! Perceptible signs and representations ................................................................ 65! 6. Computing intimacy.......................................................................................... 73! Extending the body............................................................................................ 75! Touching the body ............................................................................................ 77! Computing sex................................................................................................... 80! 7. Mobile interface culture..................................................................................... 85! Transforming places .......................................................................................... 88! Creating spheres and bubbles............................................................................ 94! 8. Closing............................................................................................................. 105! 9. Bibliography .................................................................................................... 109! Part 2 – the papers............................................................................................... 117! ..1.. ..2.. Acknowledgements Without the stipend from the research project The Aesthetics of Interface Culture (financed by The Danish Research Council for the Humanities, grant 25-03-0479), this doctoral work would never have been realised. Thank you, Henrik, Morten, Bodil Marie, Lars, Jacob, Søren and later also Christian for great discussions, interesting seminars and meetings and not least fun times at Ars Electronica, Linz Wine Festival, Transmediale and ZKM. Thank you, big hugs (and lots of champagne, G&T’s and martinis) go to: Anne for persuading me to at least consider doing a PhD in Digital Aesthetics at a time when I thought I would rather do something else. I owe you one. Camille for so many things that it makes no sense to even begin mentioning them. I am lucky to have you as friend. Charlotte for always being supportive and at a moment when I was not so sure for letting me know that if you could do it so could I. I am happy to have known you for so many years and am looking forward to many future coffee, wine and “Matador” sessions. Christian for also enjoying political satire in the wee hours. Christopher for always being ready to discuss the weirdest topics for a very long time. Cindy and Valerie for past, present and future collaborations and discussions. Doug for books, for martinis and for shelter in Boston. Am looking forward to visiting you and your girls more and to fine-tuning my martini skills. “Flemming Delfs” for providing tonnes of Thursday fun. Am looking forward to continuing where we left off. Henrik for providing feedback on the embodiment perspective. Iben for popping back into my life again after many years of silence and for discussing structural issues at times when I needed it. Jacob for always being persuadable to ‘drink cake’ while we debate the state of digital art. Am looking forward to more of that. Jesper and Trine for taking care of my flat and orchids and for being hosts of a great deal of movie watching. Am looking ..3.. forward to the last few episodes of “The Sopranos”. Jette for always being ready with some ABBA and for making Mads part of my life (for that, Doug needs a thank you too). Also thank you for providing me with research material through our mobile phones. Johanne for qualifying the urban perspective, for seriously fun gatherings and for tonnes of other things. I am sad that J-Lo Gym did not happen, can’t wait to make our international food club happen, though. Merete for qualified feedback and very interesting discussions. Am looking forward to continuing this. Pernille for letting me pick your encyclopedic brain at any time and for always being ready to join me for a drink when I crave it. Peter for being the best and sejeste office mate anyone could ever ask for. Ever. Proofers (Camille, Cindy, Jette, Johanne, Robb and Susan) for catching my worst Danglish. Susan for providing with me with my own room in Vancouver and for every interesting and fun discussion we have had over the last couple of years. Am looking forward to future shared thoughts, words and yarns. Søren for high quality supervision and for being willing to debate (and adapt to) my sometimes strange ideas during the last four years. I have been fortunate to have you as a supervisor. Tenna for being the best of friends. Thomas for being there at all times. World’s best parents for teaching me that nothing is impossible as long as you never give up fighting. ..4.. List of enclosed papers [I] Hansen, Lone Koefoed and Wamberg, Jacob (2005), ‘Interface or Interlace?’, in Lisbeth Klastrup (ed.), Digital Arts & Culture 2005 (København: IT-Universitetet), 161- 69. - Peer-reviewed [II] Hansen, Lone Koefoed and Kozel, Susan (2007), ‘Embodied imagination: a hybrid method of designing for intimacy’, Digital Creativity, 18 (4), 207-20. - Peer-reviewed [III] Hansen, Lone Koefoed (2008), ‘Den intime computer – om krop, rum og relationer’, turbulens.net, (11). <http://www.turbulens.net/index.php?pid=371>. Originally in Danish, enclosed here in English translation: ‘The intimate computer – on body, space and relations’ - Reviewed by editor [IV] Dalsgaard, Peter and Hansen, Lone Koefoed (2008), ‘Performing perception: staging aesthetics of interaction’, to appear in ToCHi: Transactions of Computer-Human Interaction, 15 (3-4). - Peer-reviewed [V] Hansen, Lone Koefoed (forthcoming), ‘The Interface at the Skin’, to appear in Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Pold (eds.), Interface Aesthetics (Amsterdam: NAi). - Reviewed by editors [VI] Hansen, Lone Koefoed, ‘Lost in Location’, submitted to Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, SAGE Publications. ..5.. ..6.. English summary The purpose of the dissertation is to investigate how pervasive computing can be understood from an aesthetic perspective. Further, the dissertation seeks to explore how an aesthetic perspective can contribute to a nuanced understanding of the cultural mechanisms influenced by the prevalence of pervasive computing. Efficiency and fun, respectively, have always been important use domains for computing technologies and with my dissertation I aim to study the broader perspectives. I thus argue that now when computers are to be found everywhere and in everything, we need to fully realise that computers not only enables us to carry out certain tasks but that they also fundamentally change our relationship to technology, to each other and to the world in general. During my doctoral work I have studied the interplay between technology and culture in three ways: by performing aesthetic analyses of both art and design artefacts, by pointing at historical parallels and by conducting small-scale interventional and experiential work. One of the dissertation’s starting points is that the term and concept of aesthetics is
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