Arnab Chakravarty, Gabriella Garcia
A vibrator that rewards you for creativity, battery charged by making art.
Description
This speculative proof of concept explores how behavioral intervention and self-tracking can stimulate creativity, literally. By tuning erotic reward toward art-making, we can recursively elevate both art and pleasure toward the virtue of bringing more imagination into the world, and honor the sexual response system for its purpose of creation. When a user interacts with the drawing app, their time spent doodling is sent to a database which translates to a number of minutes the device will power for.
Classes
Quantified Humanists: Designing Personal Data, Rest of You