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WHAT KIND OF INTERACTION? Interview with Lev Manovich
WHAT KIND OF INTERACTION? Interview with Lev Manovich
Published in “Cluster. On Innovation”, n. 3 (Interaction Design), Summer 2004, pp. 30 – 33. © Cluster 2004
«Today the interactive media asks us to click on an underlined phrase in order to pass to another one. We are asked to follow pre-programmed associations, that do and don’t exist, in other words [...] we exchange the mental structure of others with our own. [...] Interactive media asks us to identify ourselves with someone else’s mental structure.»
In 1999 with these words Lev Manovich closed the paragraph dedicated to the “myth of interactivity” in his book The Language of New Media. This affirmation purposely goes against a rather naive diffused enthusiasm regarding the potentials in digital media; however the questions brought up, aside from the controversy, are still now decisive: To what extent does the interactivity of new media limit as opposed to extend, our freedom of thought and action? To what extent does it contribute to forgetting the real interactive potentials of traditional media, that don’t perform by moving a joystick or clicking a link, but by writing text- that could be a book, film or a drawing- that we have before us? And how much does the unconditional exaltation of interactivity penalize the development of a true interaction between man and the machine, and between man and man through the machine?
INTERVIEW WITH HAN HOOGERBRUGGE
INTERVIEW WITH HAN HOOGERBRUGGE
by Domenico Quaranta
DQ. From 1996 to now, from Neurotica to Spin, your work always had just a leading character, your animated alter ego. Hotel has many characters, and no one looks like you: but the life you describe is always the same – absurd, risky, nevrotic. Are you entering a new phase – from all in one to one in all? And what about Dr. Doglin, the main character in Hotel?
HH. Yes in a way it’s a new phase. All the characters in Hotel are real people, friends of mine.
Alltough they act like me in a way, I create them, I do try to put something of their personality in them.
It’s starts with my decision to ask someone to act in Hotel. I try to ask people I think that will fit into my world.
They are all friends of mine so the got to have something I like to start with. Once I ask someone we try to find something we could do, trying to figure out how they can act in my world but using their way of moving, behaving.
Dr. Doglin is someone I met through the internet. He mailed me about 3 years ago that he liked my site.
We started an on going e-mail conversation and about 6 month later we met in real life. We are of the same age (40) en we have a lot in common. like the same music, films, comics etc.
Because of how he looks I thought he would be the perfect character for my Doctor.
