Whether they use the skins and shells of objects as an interface or animate them from within, artists and designers are set on a path that will transform the world into an information parkour and enrich our lives with emotion and motion, direction, depth and freedom.

Foreword

Paola Antonelli

Introducation

Troika

1 Design Nouveau-Digital forms and electric beauty

2 Augmented Art-Narrative techologies and immersive eperiences

3 Guerrilla Arfare-Disruption and hardvare hacking

4 Twilight Technologies-Critical Design and Alternative futures

5 Interviews

Fictional functions and functional fictions

Bringing ice to Macondo

Device art-Mdia art meets mass production

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