Interactive Art Installation
How digital media alters the way we read.
Duration
09/2018 - 04/2019
Contribution
Solo project
Tools
OpenFrameworks
C++
Eye-tracking Algorithm
Hand-crafted Material
EPSON Thermal Printer
“To read a book was to practice an unnatural process of thought, one that demanded sustained, unbroken attention to a single, static object.”
Nicholas Carr, “The Shallows”
Concept Statement
“R-e-a-d” is an interactive art installation which questions how digital media alters the way we read and retain text-based information since the rise of screen.
By detecting and visualizing audience’s real time reading behavior on digital screens, “R-e-a-d” provides the audience an opportunity to examine their own information consumption habits, especially how their concentration is altered by reading digital-based content.
In terms of the reading material, the screen is displaying contents from “Reader, Come Home,” a book by Maryanne Wolf containing sincere letters about her concerns and hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums.
Further, the collection of the examining generated by a group of audience forms a collective reflection of the original content by Wolf, which in return represents the issue of digital reading habits from a larger, vivid perspective.
How It Works
Fully Concentrated
Partially Concentrated
Rarely Concentrated
"R-e-a-d" was part of the Thesis Exhibition at Parsons School of Design - M.F.A Design And Technology Class 2019