After Duet Musical Dialogue between Movement and Sound, our ongoing reflection on Digital Devices and their relationship with traditional toys has carried over to another production. Some crucial questions moved our research: in what ways are children’s toys changing, especially those addressed to the early years, 1 to 5? How is technology changing the way children play? Which kind of relation is being created between technology and the dimension of playing?
Following the same creative thread, i.e. to investigate the interaction child-technology- art and creativity, Eyes Up deals with drones and robots, or at least the ones of “domestic” usage, whereas Duet is meant to explore the world of the tablet and its applications.
Digital natives constantly confront with technologies in their daily experiences in lots of different domains: playing, education, their first relations, their first approach to information. An aware and correct use of such technology is needed to prevent damages to health and other forms of danger for the early childhood. For this reason, Eyes Up tries to investigate DDs on a creative and open-minded perspective, aware of the risks they can cause on the one hand and confident in the unavoidable overwhelming presence they have established on the other.
Creativity and art can help restoring a balance in order to deal with new languages.