Me Against the Machine
Revital Cohen (Israeli, born 1981)
Design Interactions Department (est. 1989)
Royal College of Art (UK, est. 1837)
2006
Flash software
While a student in the Design
Interactions program, Revital Cohen
noticed the way that many computer
interfaces try to be as user-friendly
as possible. But are we really so friendly?
Do we really need to be? Cohen notes
that it is easy to feel out of control in
a world increasingly ruled by computers;
with her interface, users can injure
their computers with mouse clicks until
the screen bruises or bleeds, taking
out their frustrations on the computer
until they feel in control again.
Category: Objects
Tags: Interfaces / Visualizations / Mutants and Fairy Tales
