We we’re invited to create a project for the Polytech festival by our friend from Cardboardia Sergej Korsakov. We wanted to explore the analog underside of digital life through site-specific workshops, building automata and mechanical cardboard games inspired by digital apps and VR glasses. The participants were invited to reflect on the alienation from the material world and eachother throught our modern devices. The project became a playful critique on the promise of our social media and technology as substitutes of contact with materials and each other in the real world. We created all sorts of analogue versions of digital apps and phenomena during the week from games to facetime to tamagotchi to the animated loading icons and gifs on our screens, but reimagined as automata. In the weekend thousands of visitors could try all the cardboard automata and play the cardboard games.
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