Wifi signal-strength-bio-meter…
This post on We Make Money Not Art blog, about “the pain of everyday life” project, made me think on our Hybrid Workshop theme, concerning the forces that build our world and reality.
Thanks to this corset, we can have the ability to feel some invisible electromagnetic wave length… The stronger the signal is, the tighter the corset gets. Régine Debatty exposes feeling generated by the corset as a “pain of information society”, where “Daily walks between home, work and leisure are recompiled into a “pain-map”".
Another aspect of this corset is the denunciation about Internet and technology democratisation disparity in the world. If you wear this corset in New York you’ll get a really tight corset, getting you nearly suffocating. Somewhere like Burundi, where Internet and technology access is really rare, the corset is nearly like a t-shirt with some mecatronic equipment on it. I don’t know if the artist wanted to develop this kind of issue but I thought about this problems while I was reading Régien’s post… UN made a resolution and a World Information Society Day to discuss about Information Technology integration.
Circuit bending app…
After all the circuit bending workshop posts, some of you asked me about the interest on circuit bending and how we could use in a creative way… Well… here is a cool video made by Gijs showing his work and what we can do with this kind of practice… So take a look on what we can do with a Game-Boy, a home-made sequencer, a camera, some lights and motors… The project name is Camera Sequencer… I although give you the project page called Gieskes.
I hope you enjoy it…
If you like technical details, here are some more comments about this project.
Another project from the same person is the Sega Mega-drive Sequencer…
Here you can see a video showing its result :
