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Post-Screen: Ebrahim Poustinchi In Conversation with James Kerestes

2020-07-14T09:00:00-04:00

Post-Screen seeks possibilities for design mediums outside or inside digital screens—just not on digital screens! It is about possible ways of deepening digitality, physicality, or cyber-physicality, as not only platforms for representation, but also as mediums for direct design and experience.

In conversation with James Kerestes, Post-Screen's Ebrahim Poustinchi discusses the possibilities of robots—among other things—as possible mediums for design and as cyber-physical creatures that think digitally and act/perform physically.

“Move! – Good Robot!” or Why I Think Robots are Meant to Be Post-Screen Mediums

2019-04-26T12:03:00-04:00

A note to the reader

This text is more of a curated/comprehensive overall picture, to question the role of robot—precisely what is known as “industrial” robot arm, in our current days as possibly a medium, instead of—just, a tool. The text, however, does not look at this issue from a purely historical or theoretical point of view. Instead, it borrows facts from history, theory, and technology to illustrate the issue and question the possibilities.

To be a true comprehensive scientific article in any of the disciplines mentioned above, and to tackle such issues in depth it would take a lot more than one article. This text is a speculative projection and an invitation to think about/question the possibility of using robots—robot arms, beyond our biased readings of them as tools, order-takers, and service providers.

Post-Screen: A Criticism of Digital Screens

2019-03-22T09:30:00-04:00

I was struggling for a while with how to label/title possible thoughts and ideas for this column on Archinect; a series of texts and visual materials developed around creative robotics, philosophy, interaction design, XR, etc. and all as part of a design-thinking towards post-digital discourse! I know! It seems to be a lot, and it IS a lot! This struggle, however, led into a bigger/deeper question about the notion of what I—and a group of my colleagues and friends, do.