Affect as medium, or the 'digital-facial-image'
By exploring a number of contemporary new media artworks that focus on the digitized image of the face, I propose the encounter with the 'digital-facial-image' (DFI) as a new paradigm for the human interface with digital data. Whereas the currently predominant model of the human-computer-interface (HCI) functions precisely by reducing the wide-bandwidth of embodied human expressivity to a fixed repertoire of functions and icons, the DFI transfers the site of this interface from computer-embodied functions to the open-ended, positive feedback loop connecting digital information with the entire affective register operative in the embodied viewer-participant. For this reason, the DFI allows us to reconceptualize the very notion of the interface: by bypassing investment in more effective technical 'solutions', it invests in the body's capacity to supplement technology - the potential it holds for 'collaborating' with the information presented by the interface in order to create images. Copyright © 2003 Sage Publications.
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