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Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America.[1] Knotted strings were used by many other cultures such as the ancient Chinese and native Hawaiians,[2] but such practices should not be confused with the quipu, which refers only to the Andean device.

A quipu usually consisted of cotton or camelid fiber strings. The Inca people used them for collecting data and keeping records, monitoring tax obligations, properly collecting census records, calendrical information, and for military organization.[3] The cords stored numeric and other values encoded as knots, often in a base ten positional system. A quipu could have only a few or thousands of cords.[4] The configuration of the quipus has been "compared to string mops."[5]

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Andreea Marciuc

http://www.andreeamarciuc.com/

2012, July–

I listen

Master graduation project| Project in which I researched the concept of nothing and how can I, as a graphic designer, say nothing visually and create some space in a crowded visual culture

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The result is an absorbing tableau vivant of crowds at Piccadilly Circus in London; users can provide as many “tags” as they want containing observations. Our eye is drawn to the tags already placed by fellow observers who have pointed out details, invented dialogues or ascribed thoughts to passersby. They also offer amusing comments about people’s appearance, pose the occasional philosophical question, refer to well-known figures (Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who and Mad Max) and affix onomatopoeic texts to cars, buses, taxis and pedestrians. Quite a few of the tags point out people taking selfies or staring at their cell phones: “Caught up in virtual reality,” reports one tag at 11:04 p.m. This artwork reflects on a future when surveillance is an entirely automated combination of machine and human intelligence. It is a beautiful record of life in the common space that offers some alarming insight into the potential for control in a dystopian society.

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https://clickclickclick.click/

Roel Wouters, Luna Maurer, Netherlands, 2016, Interactive

You and your mouse – an intimate relationship you seldom really think about. But your mouse behavior can betray as much of your identity as your search terms. With Clickclickclick.click, Studio Moniker gets you clicking consciously. Whenever you open a website, your mouse movements will be explicitly observed and commented on by an expert who talks to you. And he likes to draw conclusions. “Three quick clicks in succession? You have a tendency to be aggressive.” Sound funny? Mouse behavior is being seriously studied by real academics. Moniker picked up on this and added a new chapter to the creative research the studio is undertaking into the social consequences of technology. They previously made PointerPointer and Do Not Touch, also centering on the mouse. The voice continues to talk to you – even if you switch tabs on the website, he’ll try to lure you back. Clickclickclick.click also seeks to stimulate you to explore all the potential interactions of your mouse with the screen. Persistence pays off! Moniker was inspired by the game The Stanley Parable, which comments on your game moves in a similar way, in a sarcastic voice-over.

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ASTRONAUT

http://astronaut.io/

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