Stopmotion Installation at Sudala 2010

Maybe you saw Robert’s contemporary history of stop-motion last week, but who are we kidding, probably not. Stop-motion moves onwards. Multitouch Barcelona, an art / design collective have imagined a way to free our creative selves and take stop-motion a step further, putting this photographic technique in the hands of the layman. Focused on the interaction of people with machines and looking to remove barriers preventing intuitive interaction, Multitouch Barcelona has developed many ways of imagining what natural interaction with machines is. This stop-motion installation removes the necessity of technical knowledge of the photographic technique. They say it allows for users to express creativity, unrestricted by prerequisite knowledge. Lofty ambitions indeed. As imaginative as the installation is in itself, it touches on something greater, probably intentionally. Allowing our interface with our technology to be more intuitive and making the machine altogether invisible will allow us to free our creativity. What was it like to use a computer in 1987 or drive a car on a snowy evening before traction control and ABS? What was it like to start your computer in 1994, do you remember the flashes of text and lines of code? Systems have become more intuitive. They can now do what we want more simply than ever while removing information that is irrelevant to our purpose. Shouldn’t everything be more like that?

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