Latent
Overview
Latent* is a chat application that allows you to converse with your friends by developing the context of the discussion and what is not said.
The mirroring system of instant messaging implies the presumed availability of the interlocutor. However, while waiting for a response, certain questions become recurrent: “Alex is online, why isn’t he answering? What is he doing?”
Just like theatre, it fuels the conversation by adding didascalies generated according to the collected data (response time, location). By highlighting the unsaid parts of an exchange, the generated reading mode enriches the discussion, creates poetic tension, and allows the interlocutors to become the characters of their own play.
Exhibited at Plateforme 10 in 2023 for the award Plateforme 10 x Ecal
Happening
The audience becoming the actors in their own play
Credits
Initiated as diploma project at ECAL Media & Interaction, 2022
Tutors: Gaël Hugo, Alain Bellet, Laura Nieder & Pauline Saglio
Assistants: Sébastien Matos, Kylan Luginbühl, Paul Lëon, Pierry Jaquillard
Images: Marvin Merkel, Jessy Marchetti
