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Appeel
TheGreenEyl,
Frédéric Eyl,
Willi Sengewald,
Richard The,
Gunnar Green
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“Appeel” is a virus spreading through interacting individuals.
Surfaces are covered by thousands of colored stickers laid out in a grid. Peeling a sticker off leaves a white spot in the grid, hence people start individually and collectively changing its appearance. Once off the wall, the stickers ask to be stuck somewhere: people begin putting them on objects, walls, people; they collect them, they compose new images, they write messages. Slowly, the little stickers spread, appearing further away from their source and occupying space.
People’s playful interactions through “Appeel” depend on basic principles of interactivity and generativity applied to purely analogous means. (The dot spreads with the potential to ironically mark its carrier as a symbol of sale and occupation.) Its immanent potential to penetrate regulated structures of public and private space adds a subversive undertone to its apparent plainness.
Links: http://www.thegreeneyl.de/appeel
Surfaces are covered by thousands of colored stickers laid out in a grid. Peeling a sticker off leaves a white spot in the grid, hence people start individually and collectively changing its appearance. Once off the wall, the stickers ask to be stuck somewhere: people begin putting them on objects, walls, people; they collect them, they compose new images, they write messages. Slowly, the little stickers spread, appearing further away from their source and occupying space.
People’s playful interactions through “Appeel” depend on basic principles of interactivity and generativity applied to purely analogous means. (The dot spreads with the potential to ironically mark its carrier as a symbol of sale and occupation.) Its immanent potential to penetrate regulated structures of public and private space adds a subversive undertone to its apparent plainness.
Links: http://www.thegreeneyl.de/appeel
TheGreenEyl (DE): Richard The, Gunnar Green, Frederic Eyl and Willy Sengewald are products of the class of digital media at the University of Arts, Berlin, and have been working collectively since 2003. They aim to explore the dynamics of unconventional interaction between people, their environment and technology. With the unrestrained blend of various design-techniques, they purposefully escape any attempt at categorizing their work. And constantly take one by surprise.