RIS ID
88587
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Abstract
The Human Fax Machine draws together two sets of codes – the formality of machine instructions and the much looser codes of human group interaction. As an introduction to the computational mind-set, participants are set the task of devising some means of communicating an image from one group of people to another with simple sound signals. They may have only a wooden rattle, a container of shells or two forks that they can clang together, but they must somehow transmit the image across a small visual barrier to other members of their group so that the latter can reproduce it on butcher’s paper with marker pens.
Publication Details
Bunt, B. and Ihlein, L. (2013). The human fax machine experiment. Scan (Sydney): journal of media arts culture, 10 (2), 1-26.