*Sigh*

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Featured at ITP Winter Show 2017

Sigh started from a question: What if machine sighs? Having paralingual expressions is one of the critical differences to distinguish machines from humans. Since machines don’t have identical biological structure as humans, they don’t need paralingual expressions such as sigh, gasps or throat-cleaning. Rather, the imitation of those paralanguage yields uncanniness to the audience.
In this project, the human users browse a Twitter home feed. When they found any interesting feed and “like” the tweet, the machine sitting beside the users sigh. To see the machine’s reaction over and over again, the user became a ‘machine’ to push like button repeatedly while the machine sighs at times as if it is human.

System

Role

Concept, Ideation, Design, Programming, Fabrication

Credit

Namsoo Kim: 3D modeling, Fabrication