This project reminds me of a concept that has come up in a number of my classes lately, including this one. It is the idea of realness, time, space, and options in a mediated environment. Johannes P Osterhoff et al created this project was created to give users a new and different kind of user interface. The artist, with the help of cast and crew, recreates a Windows desktop in a new kind of space. Osterhoff places the subjects in frame and then splits up the entire video into sequences that are labeled with "Real" before each sequence, almost like chapters.
The first is labeled "Real human interface." We then see an individual jump into frame, and then interacting with the icons surrounding him, including "recycling" the selection arrow. The next label is "Real drag and drop" where he then physically moves the "icons" around in the space he is given. The space is however not limited to 2 dimensions, which I find pretty interesting because he is using the space in an new and different way. The "Real mind control" shifts to his "creating a new folder" at the snap of a finger. "Real collaboration" provides the idea of network sharing. A "file" is shared and stored in the space he created. However he finds that another important file has gone missing. Usually, when file sharing, things can go terribly wrong and it is shown even in this "real" space. He goes into a "Real search" physically moving around the space in all possible dimensions and even asking the "search" of the space. The file is then found by the search and it goes to "Real ease" where he then becomes completely relaxed and comfortable with his space, eventually the computer "crashes" and all of the characters fall to the ground. A new message comes into the space implying that an error has occured.
Osterhoff did a pretty good job in taking something that is questionable in the realness of it, and taking it to a whole new space where the question is restated.
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