"Why We Are "
by KAVEH RASOULI
J22 - Annual Exhibition of Digital Media and Integrated Design
@ Energieleitzentrale, BLG-Forum & Generatorenhalle
Jahresausstellung 2022
Exhibition J22: From 11 - 16 November 2022, the Digital Media and Integrated Design artists exhibited their final projects at the BLG Forum.
The works on display contemporary artists' projects deal with socially relevant issues in content and design – sometimes offensively, sometimes profoundly, sometimes abstractly: from sustainability to climate change, resource management to gender discourses, and racism. On a more personal level, artists also deal with growing up, pop culture, identity, the myth of the private pool, and the intangibility of photographs.
" Why We Are "
An Experimental Interaction
via YVR App & Web and Installation, ( new edition)
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Password: YVR23
YVR web and app is a (Q&A) question and answer platform where users can make questions that begin with “Why we are...?”. As a discussion network on social media, users see questions and answers and join them to see what other users are commenting on. Users can interact with each other on similar issues and topics, which are focused on humans because all the questions refer to the role of “We” in “Why we are...?”
My interests in designing YVR app and the web are to focus on user interaction and a minimalistic approach for creating social media. Regarding user interaction, I was curi- ous about how many users will be interested in participating, how they will interact, and what questions they will make. Even personally, I wanted to know how many could be made with “Why we are...?”. The minimalistic approach for me is to design an app that focuses on the context and interaction rather than socialization among the users with the ambition to awaken inquiring minds.
the “Why we are...?” project consists of developing the app and web, data gathering and analysis (user interaction data in the app and web), film, and installation (due to pandemic, it is presented as a mock-up), which all come together like
pieces of a puzzle.
