Golan Levin

Work for a Member organization and need a Member Portal account? Register here with your official email address. Golan Levin is interested in the medium of response, and in the conditions that enable people to experience creative feedback with reactive systems. This presentation will discuss a wide range of his projects, with a particular attention to how the use of gestural interfaces, visual abstraction, and information visualization can support new modes of interaction, play, self-discovery, and critical inquiry. He introduces the term "speculative HCI" to frame a mode of inquiry in which novel interactions are proposed, implemented, and evaluated, not necessarily for their applicability to the solution of known problems, but for their inherent potential to pose new problems and thereby expand the vocabulary of human action. Celebrating 40 years of innovation, impact, and community at the MIT Media Lab.