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Karsten-James
Krejcarek |
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In Krejcarek's installation, Untitled (psychologist),
visitors are invited to take part in a one-on-one psychotherapy session
with a four-foot diameter rock. Lie down on a pristine white chaise-longue,
place your hand on a biofeedback device, and let the rock ask the questions.
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Untitled
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Roll
Weiland |
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A person moving close to the sculpture produces an individual sound
pattern. The sound pattern is an audible reflection of the person and
its movements. Sensors attached to the sculptures give every person
approaching a personal sonorous atmosphere.
Technical Realization: The sensors are light dependent
resistors “LDR”(sensitive to light), inserted into the wood.
They react to light and shadow the viewers induces by his movements.
The changes in voltage of the LDR are transmitted to a computer and
then to the sound modules.
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Amy
Youngs |
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Inspired by the creation of transgenic tobacco plants that glow with
the genes of fireflies, I endowed this cactus with a pulsating glow.
It is a speculation as to what might be possible in the new plant species
in the future. Beyond the creation of visual aesthetics or economically
engineered species, I imagine a plant that responds to humans and conveys
emotions in ways understandable by us. This cactus is engineered to
elicit empathy from humans, presumably so that we will be compelled
to take care of it. Its signal to us is a pulsating, glowing heartbeat
that speeds up as a person comes near it. If the cactus is touched,
its pulsing behaviour changes to a frenetic flashing.
Microprocessor and proximity sensor from the Quantum
Research Group
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Engineered
for Empathy 1999 |
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Ken
Rinaldo |
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This piece has dual sound circuitry which creates complex
mixed sounds. By petting the fur on the front of the cone the piece
is activated and the tones change from low to high cooing.
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Cyber
Squeeks |
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Ken
Feingold |
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"Sinking Feeling" is a single head, quite convinced of its
own existence, but desperate to know "Why don’t I have a body like
everyone else?" or "How did I get here, what am I doing here?"
The "cognition" of this figure is made visible in a projection
- the ones who speak with it literally see both their own words as they
are heard by this figure, and in the formulation of a reply, something
of the head’s "thought process". That he is growing out of
flowerpot also points to questions about biological engineering and
human parts as cash crops.
"Feingold chooses to
explore the zones of non-response, of mischief and misbehaviour, or
distortion, of scrambled and failed communication. [It] makes us question
the basis of everyday dialogue we tend to take for granted: how far
is our exchange with others conditioned and limited by our own, thoroughly
encoded eccentricities, our own programmed bugs and quirks? When indeed
true communication occurs, how much is this just a matter of chance?"
- Vida 3.0
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Feeling - 2001 |
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Magali
Desbazeille |
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A video image is projected on a table covered with sand. The projected
image becomes a material image, thick and palpable. The image presents
dancers lying on the wooden floor of the same place. The filmed dancers
were there at a previous moment. During the performance, the live dancers
manipulate their images and bodies.
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| Sand Table - 2000 |
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