Enquiry

The interactive rules of everyday objects shape our cognition and behavior. Through motions and interactive media, how can we challenge these rules to provoke new understandings of established logic?

The act of opening a door represents a human-object interaction. Behind this interaction is a mechanism—pressing the door handle allows the door to rotate open, revealing the hidden function of the hinge. Our daily life is filled with similar mechanisms: peeling a round potato or checking the time on a watch repeatedly. We take these mechanisms for granted, but these rules are not unbreakable.

For example, the act of checking time—24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour—is a socially constructed rule. It is not an objective truth like gravity causing apples to fall. I want to rethink human interaction with external objects and question the logic behind these interactions.

Media

Moving images do not attempt to reproduce everyday experiences or scenarios; instead, they amplify specific details to evoke emotions that go beyond everyday life.

Reference

· the abstraction of things

· the mechanism of things

· hack the mechanism of things