Saturday, April 18, 2009

Tweenbots





From the official Tweenbots site:

But of more interest to me was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people's willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone.


(Thanks again to Michael Garrett!)

3 comments:

Mike Clelland! said...

The Delion store front in the back put's this on the corner of Broadway and 9th street in Manhattan. One block away from the NYU dormitory I called home for my first year in The City.

I looked a lot like the guy on the left at 19.

Kartott said...

I love the very well-dressed lady with the fancy grey leather bag, that intervened 3 or 4 times!

Mac said...

@Mike

Is this your way of suggesting that you are, in fact, a next-generation Tweenbot?