Photo Box

Photo Box explores the value of combining the serendipity allowed by digital content with the material presence of physical artefact’s in order to recreate those small but valuable moments that come from unexpectedly stumbling across something forgotten but precious.

Every so often (Roughly every 1-2 months) the box searches it’s owners flickr account for photos that have been organized in some way and, picking one at random, prints the photo out internally using the small photo printer contained in the lid.
You are free to search the box whenever you like but there may or may not be a photo waiting, and no way of knowing what it will be.
If you do find a photograph and it’s one that you wish to share it can be put on display using the accompanying frame where it may eventually be replaced. If on the other hand the photograph is private or personal it can be kept hidden in the segmented compartment in the bottom of the box.

When Photo Box was chosen by the team for use in a long term field research study,  I lead the development of the prototypes and consulted on the system that would be deployed with our volunteers.

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About

My name is Mark and I’m a product interaction designer and researcher. Or something.

I am currently a PhD student at Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Lab and Horizon DTC, where I am conducting design lead research into the consequences and implications of the technology mediated practices that we currently employ to record and recollect our experiences.
Alongside academic research I have maintained my own creative practice, and continue to work with commercial design studios, artists, galleries and research labs, on anything from hardware development and prototyping to interaction design and conceptual development.

I am also a co-founder and collaborator at The Institute for Boundary Interactions; an interdisciplinary research collective research working across science, technology, art and design.

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