This machine takes to an extreme a childish act, which we are discouraged from doing with story telling, and made up consequence. The machine actively disproves the stories we’re told by quantifying how many times you can flick the light switch. It offers hard evidence that can be presented to both preacher and preachee.
The flickererer offers a piece of evidence for use by both preacher and preachee that starts to create a dialogue between the two. This can be Mother and Child, Teacher and pupil, and so on. The object does not sit in a home specifically, it is in constant transition, it moves from exhibition into your home, and back, on a pilgrimage, offering up evidence and preaching on it’s way.
I took the flicker on a pilgrimage to it’s ’source’, I identified the source as my parents because they told me not to flick the switches, which led me to their parents. After this I decided I need to take the machine to a future generation; taking it to my 4 year old cousin.
These five people used the object in very different ways and they’re resulting, ‘re-assembled beliefs’ varied accordingly, whether scared, skeptical, or easily convinced the object was demonstrably less than perfect. It did not build trust in a way that I had expected it to, where questions that I had assumed would be answered after use, were left unanswered and still up for speculation.
Lightswitchflickerer
This machine takes to an extreme a childish act, which we are discouraged from doing with story telling, and made up consequence. The machine actively disproves the stories we’re told by quantifying how many times you can flick the light switch. It offers hard evidence that can be presented to both preacher and preachee.
The flickererer offers a piece of evidence for use by both preacher and preachee that starts to create a dialogue between the two. This can be Mother and Child, Teacher and pupil, and so on. The object does not sit in a home specifically, it is in constant transition, it moves from exhibition into your home, and back, on a pilgrimage, offering up evidence and preaching on it’s way.
I took the flicker on a pilgrimage to it’s ’source’, I identified the source as my parents because they told me not to flick the switches, which led me to their parents. After this I decided I need to take the machine to a future generation; taking it to my 4 year old cousin.
These five people used the object in very different ways and they’re resulting, ‘re-assembled beliefs’ varied accordingly, whether scared, skeptical, or easily convinced the object was demonstrably less than perfect. It did not build trust in a way that I had expected it to, where questions that I had assumed would be answered after use, were left unanswered and still up for speculation.
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