Generator
Solo MA project at RCA,
May-Jun 2007 and ongoing.
Exhibited at
The Great Exhibition, RCA 15-28 June 2007
and
Kithkin at Designersblock,
Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan 16-21 April 2008.
— Sol Lewitt.
A generative approach to concept development for electronic products.
The emotional and irrational aspects of being human often contrast and even conflict with the values inherent in digital and electronic products. Generator is a software tool for exploring possibilities for such products, in each case combining a social context or technology with an emotional aspect and a function.
Working with text encourages the reader to fill in the gaps conceptually. On encountering a juxtaposition of parameters the mind naturally tries to make them into a coherent whole, even when this means resolving contradictions or absurdities.
Presented at the RCA degree show as an "ATM for ideas", using a simple push-button interface and a printer to allow visitors to take away concepts and design them. This version of the software had 139,590 different combinations.
See also: GPS-based Frisson Inducer and Hand-held Intuition Tuner.