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Q IS FOR QUICKEN 

 What new gestural repertoires idiomatic to “sensate, animated paper” emerge when we can break from interaction design locked to the legacy of GUI’s with the idea of a screen and pointy “pointing device”?   What can we adapt, for example, from (un)folding, rolling, kneading, as well as pressing with any part(s) of the body?   What can we adapt from the state of the art in the gestural modulation of sound and the highly advanced technologies of gesture and motion-based interaction for musical expression, but detached from their usual device-centric context of musical instruments, and transposed to the ancient analog habits of manipulating paper, felt, textile, and parchment?  How do the corporeal-symbolic practices of sketching, drawing, writing, and reading (image) and listening open up and blend, beyond the conventional distinctions of their respective grammatological functions?   This is a risky project because we really cannot tell until we make and try out some of these sensate, animated substrates, at least in prototype form.
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