Machine/Human/Beauty- A series on interfaces, art, design, and humanity

As an art student with a great interest in the human figure, I’ve recently come to recognize that there might be people who have not dwelled on what makes for compelling software and hardware objects.

As both a beginner to the coding side of life, but at least an intermediate student in the theories that underling the social sciences and biology of objects, as well as an intermediate in art theory and critique, I feel compelled to investigate what makes for well-crafted objects, both software and hardware.  One of the best methods of learning is to copy and iterate; To write about what makes for compelling works  forces new encounters and new ideas.  Eventually, I hope that

As a society, we are only beginning to think about what makes for a truly compellingly, well-crafted software and well-crafted hardware, as well as the links between the two.  The idea of the average individual owning a color monitor is only a little over two decades old, and the internet for the average individual about one and a half.  In that time, these items have radically changed, as well as our responses to them.  Trying to figure out how and why they became compelling, when much like art, they hit us all in the gut as a necessary, something either to stare in revelry or revulsion, will help give direction to what sorts wonders we should be curious about in the future.  Although we continue to ever evolve, our true essence as humans remains the same, and trying to find out through the tools we use about the essence of humanity is of striking importance as our tools seem to progress much further away from those of the very first humans.

Appreciating the art of the basics is a hard thing indeed.  An open thread for objects to approach.