Golan Levin

Category : Interface Research

“As a quest for expanding the vocabulary of social practices and of the object-subject relationship, emotional technology (smart, intelligent) simulates human behaviour and creative energy. It revisits the environment anew for new types of interactions and explorations.

“Golan Levin is a software artist who creates screens and robotic objects that study sound, speech, movement, and gaze. In his work, he explores the ability for motion to create shapes and enable experimental activities in a social context. In this way, interaction reveals a type of individual personality (rhythm, shapes, emotions) and collaborative relationships between the subject-object and subject-to-subject interface. The screen results in a series of movements and shapes that emit sounds. Making visible the un-designed, real the designed.” (Diab Yunes, 2009)

In a TED talk: “Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you,” Levin explains that his process originates from Oliver Sacks’ observation of synaesthesia (that some people can hear colours and others taste shapes), which he calls ‘funaesthesia’.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/golan_levin_ted2009.html

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