20.05.25 - 05.06.2025
In Quick Response, I explored the mobile phone as a personal, relatable, and responsive medium for interactive web-based experiments. The project consists of 16 small black-and-white pixel-style interactions, each accessible via a unique QR code. These QR codes are displayed together at the festival, forming a larger visual system that reflects the modular nature of digital experiences.
The title references both the QR code (Quick Response code) and the expectation of instant interaction that defines our relationship with digital media today. Each experiment plays with this expectation in different ways. Some respond immediately to user input, while others intentionally delay feedback or resist interaction altogether.
The experiments explore a wide range of input and sensor-based interactions, such as microphone volume, touch, motion, camera, multitouch, and waiting. For example, a moiré circle grows and shrinks based on ambient volume, a physics simulation responds to screen tilting, and a 10-minute timer challenges the user's patience with minimal feedback. Visually, the project builds on pixel aesthetics from my previous work, referencing both QR code structures and early digital graphics.
The work invites users to reflect on how quickly they expect the world to respond, both digitally and emotionally. It contrasts instant gratification with slow or ambiguous responses, raising questions about attention, habit, control, and the tension between action and reaction.
