Prepared Phone

list of iPhone abbreviations, Publication, Score, Workshop, with The Critical Inquiry Lab, 2020

Prepared Phone, the result of the workshop given at the Critical Inquiry Lab, 2020. Prepared Phone, the result of the workshop given at the Critical Inquiry Lab, 2020.

Inspired by John Cage’s prepared piano, the students of The Critical Inquiry Lab program at the Design Academy Eindhoven compiled a list of iPhone text abbreviations and substitutions that would reflect their practices, attitudes and idiosyncrasies. The result can be understood as a performative text, a score, and a publication that is enacted through writing, blurring the boundaries between author and reader.