April 13
“[Of] interest to me was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone.”
This makes me think of the uncanny valley and how quickly it ramps up. We seem very willing to project human traits onto something that we catch a glimpse of humanity in, but that projection quickly diminishes as the object appears more human.
Another example is Faces in Places, it’s surprising how endearing two dots and a line can be.
