Ûiiti: A treatment for ecological experience in mobile network culture. Issue 1 (1st October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ploeger, Dani; Mbillo, Greenman Muleh
• Is Part Of: Journal of environmental media. Volume 3:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 177
• Page End: 180
• Publication Date: 2022-10-01
• Subjects: Digital media -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Digital media -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 302.231
• DOI: 10.1386/jem_00082_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2632-2463

Abstract

Ûiiti ('the treatment') is an Android phone app created by artist duo Greenman Muleh Mbillo, in Kenya, and Dani Ploeger, in the Netherlands. The work is a high-tech iteration of the nzevu, a ritual instrument of the Kenyan Akamba tribe. It transforms a smartphone from a networking technology with complex modes of interaction into a technology of transcendence with a minimal user interface. Through a constellation of symbolic imagery and the performance of repetitive sonic patterns, the work aims to evoke a heightened experience of the user's immediate lifeworld.