Are there Starker IxD's? Who are they?
Yes, we are a young field, but my personal impression is that there are ixd experiences closely resembling Michael's description of his Starker recital.
The first example that comes to mind is We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar (www.wefeelfine.org).
Working from at least two kinds of resistance in the digital materials (1. Internet trawling intricacies; 2. User-interface design conventions and idioms) to break through into a somewhat magical place.
The work captures something vital about participatory media, perhaps not as they are but certainly as we like them to be. It may be idealistic, but never naively so.
(OK, a "permanent wound in the soul" may be a little exaggerated. But it is certainly one of the ixd pieces that has left the clearest and most persistent marks on my view of the canon of interaction design.)
Note, though, that I think it makes more sense to talk about interaction design pieces than interaction designers. We Feel Fine is, to me, comparable to Michael's Starker-Bach-recital, but I am not saying that Jonathan Harris is Janos Starker. To be sure, he tends to work in a way that illustrates how the resistances of the digital materials can spark innovation, but not all his works are as successful as We Feel Fine.
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