System 0.1 is a book/machine. It’s a proposal developed around the act of reading and, more specifically, the habitual gestures that surround this practice. Observing users interacting with a book suggests that beyond the action of turning a page to explore its content, the book acts as a focal point for a library of gestures around itThis system focuses on a specific gesture: the act of lightly brushing the fore-edge of a book with one’s thumb upon first encountering it. Like a greeting, this hypnotic gesture serves as an initial contact, offering a glimpse of the book’s content while revealing its structure, paper, and resistance.
This gesture, tied to a sensitive emotional connection with the book, is dissected, analyzed, and automated through this device, which takes on the appearance of a book laboratory. The idea is to amplify a shared experience by staging it. This automatism is synthesized through the action of a motor, which touches each page of the book sequentially to produce a choreography. The only text present is the Arduino code, which governs the motor, defining its movement and temporality. The goal is to simulate a repetitive and meditative gesture that unfolds endlessly—a kind of invisible writing that tells a story: the story of our relationship with this object and its physicality.
This gesture, tied to a sensitive emotional connection with the book, is dissected, analyzed, and automated through this device, which takes on the appearance of a book laboratory. The idea is to amplify a shared experience by staging it. This automatism is synthesized through the action of a motor, which touches each page of the book sequentially to produce a choreography. The only text present is the Arduino code, which governs the motor, defining its movement and temporality. The goal is to simulate a repetitive and meditative gesture that unfolds endlessly—a kind of invisible writing that tells a story: the story of our relationship with this object and its physicality.
