Hasta La Ideas

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pHere’s another project about disgust (see a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/lynn_lim_leverages_ick__16814.asp”Lynn Lim’s Leveraging Ick/a). Katrin Baumgarten’s emAesthetics of Disgust/em includes a set of light switches that react in nauseating ways, from prickling hairs to oozing mucous. See the video above for a sample./p

pThe objects were made to bring attention to banal moments in our everyday environment; what might make a light switch both repellant and attractive?/p

blockquoteThis work consists of multiple designs of an everyday object, each time based on a different approach to disgust, and to examine the provoked reactions. It consists of a wall installation of 14 switches transformed in a disgusting way. Every time a switch is pressed, a virtual light-bulb on a screen is lighting up as a feedback for the test-person. Through its simplicity and its everyday occurrence, the interaction with a switch has been marginalised into subconscious behaviour. We do not recognize its existence anymore, although this elementary form of interaction is a basic part of our life and controls our use of energy. I want to show that people are indeed both repelled and fascinated by the disgusting transformation of the switches./blockquote

pKatrin’s made a few other objects that also utilize disgust: Disgusted Objects (think surface that get goosebumps) and Intimate Touch Communication (pseudo-sexual, remote interactions with strangers). See them all a href=”http://katrinbaumgarten.de/project/my-work/”here/a. /p

pMore after the jump./p

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