Intention

 In Alex Rothera and Jimmy Krahe’s exhibition piece “Playful Self,” they explore the possibility of a future where mundane objects could be smart and reactive to stimuli coming from our bodies. With recent innovations already capable of tracking measurements of our health state, such as the FitBit and Apple Watch, it is possible to gather and show data about our bodies. I want to further question the possibility of a future where even our food could somehow gather, analyze, and reflect biometric data as it is --and has been-- consumed. Through my design, I intend to recreate this possibility to a certain realistic extent, to raise questions about how far we should let technology into our lives. How much more and in how many more ways should we digitize our memory and interfere with how we make efforts to keep track of our habits?