“The Weird, the Cute and the Dark: How to Account for Aesthetics When Working on Awareness about Design Patterns” presented by Slizewicz and Claes

Symposium:

• ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art

• Aesthetic Experience and Speculation

• The Weird, the Cute and the Dark: How to Account for Aesthetics When Working on Awareness about Design Patterns

• Guillaume Slizewicz
• Sandy Claes

Venue(s):

• CCCB: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

• This paper presents the design and set up of the robotic media arts installation ‘Accept All’. We discuss how this art piece bears legacy of previous work in both media arts as the academic field of Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), and touches upon contemporary topics of political awareness, trust and data representation. Accept All covers five different aesthetic design choices for robot design, each contributing to the topic in its own way. The last part of the paper proposes to explore the paradoxical stance that media artists have to adopt when dealing with issues such as dark patterns.

Keywords:

• robots
• cuteness
• weirdness
• vernacular
• interest-triggering

Category:

• Paper
• Short Paper