CaseStudies-LukatheWiFiDog-PeterZuroweste

Digital technologies already augment and enhance our relationships to the world. If we can make our objects ‘tweet’, ‘cry’ and even ‘monitor our happiness’, why not animals? What possibilities might emerge when we move beyond embedding passive RFID identity tags into our pets and begin to augment them with ‘intelligent’ networked devices? As Donna Haraway suggests, historically all domestic plant and animal species have subjected to human intent in stories of escalating progress or destruction, according to taste. Moving into the future, with new scientific and technological tools at our disposal, could our pets became early adopters, serving as a ‘normalising influence’ or ‘human proxies’ before we set about trying them on our bodies? What will be the emergent interactions and behaviours resulting from such augmentation? If our pets begin to develop a new kind of intimacy with networked technologies, becoming wanderers of hidden data, who will command and who will be in control? Luka, the Wifi Dog is a fictional scenario that explores these questions, and the emerging interactions as the boundaries between the biological and digital blur.
 * Project Name:** Luka, the WiFi Dog
 * Project Credits:** Anab Jain
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