Follow, 2018
Interactive performance by Daniel Armengol Altayó
For two months, I was a human puppet, but who was really controlling whom?
Exhibited at Design Does.
↑ Gif by Juneza Niyazi.
Follow, 2018
Two spaces of identical dimensions. I inhabited the space on the right side of the image, equipped with a controller and a virtual reality headset. In the other space there was a controller on the floor, waiting for someone to pick it up.
When visitors took the controller and moved it, they also moved the controller I was holding in my hand, giving the illusion of being able to control my movements, as if I were a human puppet.
↑ Photo by Xavi Padrós.
Follow, 2018
4840 interactions counted, at an average of 1 minute per interaction, spread over 40 days, during the two months of the exhibition.
This graph displays the activity recorded during the performance. The horizontal axis represents the days. The vertical axis, the hours. Each line represents an interaction and an interaction started to count when someone picked it up the controller from the floor and stopped the moment they put it down again.
2018
Technological devices and digital tools have a huge influence power on the development and consolidation of our behavior. That is the topic I decide to explore with my first performance. The experience shakes my worldview.
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Follow, 2018
We live together in a beautiful but unbalanced world, where the fears and interests of some, design the behaviors of many.
This relationship of power applies in any social interaction; we are constantly being influenced by the thoughts and actions of the others, and vice versa, molding the persona, hence the entire social fabric. Sometimes this happens naturally, free of intention, sometimes there is a hidden agenda behind, and not always is easy to identify who controls whom.
Are you able to recognize the tools and strategies used to create, modify or determine behavior? Do you act responsibly when using them on another human being?
“Behavior and perception can also be designed. This is not only design’s great power, but also its great responsibility.” Excerpt from the texts used in the exhibition.
Follow, exhibited at Design Does.
23/03/18 → 13/05/18
Barcelona Design Museum, ES.
An exhibition about the designer’s role today and in the future as a provider of solutions, humanist, strategist and/or agent of change.
↑ Screenshot from the website of the exhibition.
↑ Teaser created at the beginning of the exhibition, to promote the performance.
For more videos, check this collection of material captured by the audience during the performance, or this series of short videos made after the exhibition, to explain and summarize the experience.