in our most recent essay reading in digital visual culture, ralf nuhn mentioned a work by the MIT media lab called musicBottles that i found to be interesting and worth further research. nuhn's goal was "to explore interrelationships and transitions between screen-based digital environments and their immediate physical surroundings" with his 6 interactive installations titled UNCAGED. he mentions musicBottles when addressing human-computer interaction.
as you can see in the video, the removal and replacement of corks on the bottles triggers the start and stop of music. apparently, the media lab wanted "to maintain the coherence between the new digital meaning of the interface and its everyday functionality as a physical object."
what do you guys think? do they succeed in their goal? or is it just a cool installation?
Cool and successful, in my humble opinion!
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