Guidstone Teleportation Hub
Genre : Photo
Supports : carbon pigment print
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
from the series Digital Bodies :
Digital Bodies
The arrival of virtual environments and augmented realities have had a distinct impact on the way we interact with the world. These types of simulations cause new relationships between the observer and what is being observed and affect our senses and experiences in ways that are more dramatic and monumental than ever before.
The Digital Bodies series considers what the future world might be like, both visually and experientially, when the real and the virtual collide. The hybrid of synthetic and organic realities is already underway, and the effects of this synthesis will reveal interesting changes in the way we go about our everyday lives. Not only will our ways of doing things change substantially but the tactility of our contact with the environment will alter as well.
There are many possibilities that we could imagine occurring in the near and distant future. The ability to control robotic entities remotely, capture, translate, and output from neural firings into language, create avatars and interact with them in virtual worlds, access directions to any location in the world through our cell phones, or even learn how busy a particular cafe is through augmented reality applications. These are minor changes; yet, they have opened up access to a more united habitat; breaking down traditional borders and opening up a network of information that is incalculably immense.
Eventually the separation between the real world and the virtual will become seamless as we slide from one mode of being into another.
Patrick Millard
Hybrid Sphinx
Genre : theatrical performance
Supports : video of theatrical performance ; actress ; makeup
video-projection 3 x 4 m, 2,2min, acting by A. Laure Obertson
presented for Zeugma exhibition, Rethymnon, Crete, October 2006
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.1.) The right to free personal evolution
man is the measure of everything /this leads me to a notion of an endless riddle about my own fate /
My face, my legs…how do I look like?
a sphinx? a woman? an animal? a mutant? My definition of man is not a riddle. It comes out of my dispair about language…
so many thoughts coming out now / language is my gratest problem / some days seem to pass rather slow now…
Morphological Freedom
Genre : photo
Supports :
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.1.) The right to free personal evolution
Scentsory Design®
Genre : video
Supports : digital
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.5.) Changing the perception of smell
Scentsory Design® is a film that explores the fusion of ‘Emotional Fashion’ with health and olfaction science to create a new concept in perfumery. It is a multi-sensory journey describing the future of fashion and fragrance that goes beyond current microencapsulated techniques, through the inclusion of sensors and microfluidics that sense and respond to psychological and environmental changes. Inspired by the human circulation system and the defence mechanism in bombardier beetles, the purpose is to produce an ‘aroma rainbow’ scent symphony around the user, that changes with emotion.
Scentsory Design® is a collection of responsive clothing that adds more sensations into the fashion palette in ways that create radical new properties with real benefit. By choosing scent as a tool to enhance the quality and beauty of life, and improve mental and physical wellbeing, the wearer acts on visual cues or detects scent signals, allowing immediate information.
We are entering a new age of perfumery that will have a radical impact on mental health. Scent has the power to evoke emotions because the olfactory sense impacts directly with the limbic system (our emotional center). Olfactory substances have the power to change electrical brain activity to increase an individual’s ‘wellbeing’ The aim is to produce an intimate ‘scent bubble’ that ‘pulses’ benefit chemicals in controlled ways responding to personal needs. This allows for efficient scent delivery that is targeted to specific parts of the body. The users confidence in their visual identity is thus enhanced by sensory, psychological and medical wellbeing
DNA Breakout
Genre : photography and computer graphics.
Supports :
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.1.) The right to free personal evolution
Aug
Genre : Audio happening
Supports : Digital memory
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.4.) Processing of auditory perception
Experiment of a change of the hearing sense?
A live glitch experience.
The first of its kind, ever.
Listen to us descend further into the maelstrom of the blown and delayed mind, the debris of which feedback further into the explosions.
Comment by the artist :
Aug explores the augmented world of his imagination. His mind alters the nature in which his senses perceive, which feedback into his mind.
His listens to his brainwaves vocoded through the external sounds, which echo, delay, and surround him. His minds-eye is projected into his real vision. He is in a waking dream. He carries his cumbersome technology in a backpack. He is a DIY psychonaug, one of the first.
What does Aug see, feel, and hear as he sucks himself into the Imagination Black Hole?
It is aesthetic, but not sure what it has to do with Transhumans.
I like it. To me, this could be an illustration of a download, theme highly h+. The connection would be symbolysed by filaments in form of lightning. The character is decompositing (or restructuring) in “pixels”. The individual seems to have a young body, pre-adolescent. It appears in a pose for balance, or abandonment.
(MMEF)
J’aime bien. Pour moi ce pourrait être l’illustration d’un téléchargement, thème hautement h+. La connexion serait symbolysée par les filaments en forme d’éclairs. Le personnage se décompose (ou se recompose) en « pixels ». L’individu paraît avoir un corps jeune, de pré-adolescent. Il semble dans une pose de recherche d’équilibre, ou d’abandon.
Is very attractive,simple formal beauty, it can be developed as a form of language to show a series of ideas.
很吸引人,充满了简洁的形式美,它可以被发展为一种形式语言去展现一系列的思想。