While the 2018 replica of Gordon Pask’s Colloquy of Mobiles is being crated in preparation for its time at Centre Pompidou, the magazine INTERACTIONS has printed a brief description of the project in their DEMO HOUR feature section. Here’s the text of the story:
COLLOQUY 2018 Project
The organic and analog forms provoke new answers to today’s pressing question: What do we want from conversations with machines?
Colloquy 2018 is a full-scale replica of Gordon Pask’s Colloquy of Mobiles. This historic work first appeared at the storied Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in London in 1968. Colloquy represents a pivotal moment in interaction design and interactive art. Male and female mobiles converse with each other and with humans to express desire, competition, and satisfaction. They do so with delight and humor. The organic and analog forms provoke new answers to today’s pressing question: What do we want from conversations with machines? The work will be shown at Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of their Brain Simulated Intelligence exhibition, opening February 26, 2020.
Colloquy will be on display at Centre Pompidou as part of the exhibition NEURONS / SIMULATED INTELLIGENCES through April 2020.
Go to INTERACTIONS MAGAZINE for the original DEMO HOUR feature section. Read about the journey of COLLOQUY 2018 Project starting here.