For this project we all designed art interventions that were thematically related to our thesis topics. After getting frustrated trying to come up with a good intervention to do in a bathroom (mirrors in toilet bowls...?), I decided to try and make a point about overuse of hand sanitizer. Some bugs are good, after all... So this is my world sanitizing machine. It spits out sanitizer (actually water). I think it just ended up confusing people and creeping them out a little bit. It is a very difficult thing to design both the artifact and the experience to elicit a specific reaction from people.
For this project we all designed art interventions that were thematically related to our thesis topics. After getting frustrated trying to come up with a good intervention to do in a bathroom (mirrors in toilet bowls...?), I decided to try and make a point about overuse of hand sanitizer. Some bugs are good, after all... So this is my world sanitizing machine. It spits out sanitizer (actually water). I think it just ended up confusing people and creeping them out a little bit. It is a very difficult thing to design both the artifact and the experience to elicit a specific reaction from people.
