Jaz Affleck

Digital technology is so all encompassing. It touches almost everything but without physically touching anything. The fundamental importance of our touch in the physical world cannot be overestimated, therefore the opportunity to open a digital window that incorporates a physical experience would both enhance our understanding of the physical as well as expanding the possibilities of the digital world.

Studied:(BA Product Design, Central Saint Martins 2014-2017) 

These projects merge the boundaires of the phyiscal and digtial. 

Amalgam 

Encode an object with ‘hidden meaning’ and then temporarily illuminate this invisible digital layer using a vibrating ephemeral liquid lens that merges the ‘real’ with the ‘unreal’ so both are read together as one. The physical object informs our understanding of the digital, and the digital transforms our emotions to the physical. 

Immix 

Digital ‘tagging’: a digital window - merged with the physical. A sharing of experiences, with ideas directly tied to the physical object to create new experiences and reactions to physical objects. By combining digital content with physical forms the objects are transformed into a perpetual and enduring canvas for digital expression – response, reaction, comment all mingling with the physical world around us.   

Coalesce 

Physically change the shape of the digital world. Create new experiences where the modular smartphone design becomes a ‘digital campfire’ with users devices transforming to manipulate content as well as connect physically together to become a single canvas of social digital gathering.