Telepafono

Telepafono is an interface for transmitting images using psychic powers.

Participants take on the role of either the transmitter or the receiver - the transmitter is given an iconic printed image and the receiver is given a blank sheet of paper and a pen. Both transmitter and receiver don special helmets and for one minute the transmitter concentrates on the image in front of them, attempting to send it to the receiver. In turn the receiver must draw whatever he or she believes that are receiving. At the end of the minute the drawings are compared and then displayed side-by-side. This project was also conceived for the exhibition "Death in Venice. A story must tell itself" at the Telecom Italia Future Center in Venice.
We wanted to challenge the expectation of the kind of research being conducted into 'future' products, as well as preying upon the children's willingness to believe in supposed 'psychic' phenomena.

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Project Credits
Crispin Jones, Sara Manazza

Video Credits
Direction and editing: Simone Muscolino
featuring Walter Aprile
Production: e1

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• idlab
• id-lab
• Interaction
• Design
• Institute
• Ivrea
• telepathy
• telepathic
• phone
• e1
• idii