Friendly Alien: Object and Interface

Friendly Alien: Object and Interface

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Abstract Since 1996, artist Miltos Manetas has done paintings that systematically portray the new essential objects of contemporary life: joysticks, computers, computer game consoles, and computer cables (lots of them).Manetas also paints people who iphone 14 price texas are usually intensely engaged in the activities made possible by consumer electronics devices, such as playing a computer game.But he never shows what games they are playing or what images folk rivet sweat they are looking at.Instead, he focuses on the humancomputer interface: hands clutching a joystick, a body stretched across the floor in the intense concentration or, alternatively, relaxing besides a laptop, a computer console, or a TV.