Multi-Touch Finger Paintings
Evan Roth - touchscreen smears as portraits of iphone apps.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90186030/artist-turns-iphone-swipes-into-fancy-finger-paintings
This is a collection of smears from when you use an app presented as a portrait of that app. It also talks to different usage / UX patterns, and to the idea that non-tangile things like apps or sites have discernable organic patterns to them.
‘multi-touch finger paintings’ by evan roth image © evan roth
american artist and researcher evan roth has created a series of images that map the movement of routine tasks performed on an ipod touch. entitled ‘multi-touch finger paintings’, the activities include checking twitter to reading the front page of the new york times online. simple and candid, roth utilized tracing paper and an ink pad – black for the right hand, red for the left – to delineate the altogether modern practice. by combining notions of new technology with the elementary method of finger painting, the resulting project explores everyday behaviour in an effective and creative manner.
‘slide to unlock’ ink and tracing paper 2.3” x 4.4” paris, 2011 image © evan roth
‘launch twitter. check twitter. close twitter.’ ink and tracing paper 2.3” x 4.4” paris, 2011 image © evan roth
‘sent from a device with tiny keys’ ink and tracing paper 2.3” x 4.4” paris, 2011 image © evan roth
‘hello world’ ink and tracing paper 2.3” x 4.4” paris, 2011 image © evan roth
‘launch mail. read mail. close mail.’ ink and tracing paper 2.3” x 4.4” paris, 2011 image © evan roth