(smow)blog compact: What you get is what you give? Shapes in Play at SWING Gallery

By way of an addendum to our 5 New Design Exhibitions for December 2013 post……. On Saturday December 14th 2013 SWING Gallery in South-Central Italian Benevento open a solo exhibition by the Berlin design collective Shapes in Play.

Under the title Hidden Patterns Johanna Spath and Johannes Tsopanides, a.k.a Shapes in Play present the latest chapter in their exploration of both the borders between digital and analogue in contemporary society and the possibilities for increasing emotional attachment to everyday objects through an increased personalisation in the individualisation of said objects..

Following on from Cloudspeaker which analysed tags in a users virtual music collection to produce individual 3D printed speakers and the Soundplotter project which transformed sound into physical objects, Hidden Patterns promises to analyse the amount of personal information we give prise about ourselves in social networks to create a resin bowl: the more information you give, the more bowl you get.

But is that good?

Or is less better?

In addition to Hidden Patterns the exhibition will also present examples from the Soundplotter project, thus allowing for a rounder impression of Shapes in Play’s work.

Shapes in Play What you get is what you give? runs at SWING Gallery, Via Arcivescovo Pacca 14/16, 82100 Benevento from Saturday December 14th 2013 until Saturday February 15th 2014.

Full details can be found at http://spazioswing.it/en

What you get is what you give? Shapes in Play at SWING Gallery

Examples of the Soundplotter project by Shapes in Play as seen at Milan 2013