Personal digital manifestations - Contemporary digital life and the objects that enable it

The manipulation and crafting of our physical environmentis a fundamental and defining human characteristic. Thestandardized and mass produced urban civilizations we inhabit are becoming increasingly impersonal.

As we search for deeper connections and forge meaningful relationships with our environment we face new challenges of integrating the intangible digital content on which we place an increasing importance.

Through a process of enhancing and exaggerating the interaction process, the physicality of these digital devices may better describe the relationship between individuals and their digital content.

I endeavor to create objects that represent the intangible digitalcontent they contain, in the hope they may take more aesthetic andmeaningful forms to better integrate them into the most personal of environments, our homes.

Through this paper I will describe how I have sought to represent one of the most important aspects of individuality and self, expressed within our homes, memory.