Earlier I posted a video displaying Jef Han’s multi-touch screen, but this demo is much better in showing the breadth of how it operates. Again, I am curious how both interface design and narrativescapes will change in the context of this type of screen environment. The demo is from 2006 so surely someone has been experimenting with its potential. My apologies for the hyped advertising…it seems to go with the “product”.
While the music is cringingly techno-Utopic, the potential of this type of tactile screen is immense. Without a doubt, writing, reading and navigating through such a fluid environment would open up entirely new and unexpected narrative-scapes. Reading is also physical and not just optical. The body has to move here or there to shift elements around. As a writer, it would be fantastic to envision your reader in movement, to think through a choreography of reading!
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Since 1996 I've also collaborated with Riek Sijbring and Femke Snelting under the name of De Geuzen. Below you'll find a link to our main page plus some highlighted projects which have radically informed my thinking about visual research, digital writing and narratives.
