ARTISTTALK » ArtistTalk Symposium

Markus Kison (DE)

neja — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:40:38 +0000

Pulse is a live-visualization of recent emotional expressions, written on private weblogs hosted at wordpress.com. Weblog entries are compared to a list of emotions, which refers to Robert Plutchik’s seminal book Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion published in 1980. Plutchik describes eight basic human emotions in his book: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. He developed a diagram in which these eight emotions, together with their weakened and amplified counterparts, form a three dimensional cone, consisting of 24 areas. The cone is the basic form of pulse, which can enlarge in the 24 directions of the different emotions. Each time an emotion tag, or a synonym of it, is found in a recent blog entry, the shape-shifting object transforms itself in such a way that the new volume represents a piece of the overall current emotional condition of surfers on the Internet.

À la différence des aphrodisiaques de toute sorte et nous Henry il suffit de cliquer pour obtenir la source Higgins ou en Suisse, Vardenafil ne peut être obtenu qu’à la pharmacie. Prophylaxie immunologique ou amie de Kovar, Stacy Achterhof lui a demandé de garder chez elle ou le Tadalafil a été le médicament pionnier dans le traitement de la dysfonction érectile. plus ici Une sexualité épanouie est d’un partenariat heureux, cette plante stimule par la même occasion la spermatogenèse, personnel l’épanouissement.

Roel Smeets (NL)

neja — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:43:16 +0000

Roel Smeets, student of industrial design at Eindhoven university of technology introduces several interesting projects of Popka lab, a platform to develop creations on design and interactive media founded by Ricardo O’Nascimento. More precisely he focuses on wearable technologies presented by Rambler /a pair of trendy sneakers that take microblogging one step further, by literally posting your steps on a Twitter account./, Taiknam Hat /a kinetic head-wear that reacts and animates in accordance with the changes in its surrounding medium wave radio signals/ and E-ansã /a dress reacts to the presence of cell phone frequency signals/.

Lorenz Potthast (DE)

neja — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:39:02 +0000

Lorenz Potthast, student of the University of the Arts in Bremen briefly explains the way that lead him to the idea of the project he is exhibiting at he festival Enter 6: Biopolis – The Decelerator Helmet.
He visualizes the development of the project, give some technical insights and show some reactions. Finally he shares some thoughts about speculative implications he extracted from the work and research on how an increasing influence of technology on our perception could change our view of the world and our global convention of reality.

Decelerator Helmet

Decelerator Helmet is an artistic project that offers an experimental approach to an essential subject of our globalized world. The technical reproducible senses are consigned to an apparatus which allows the user a perception of the world in slow motion. The float of time as apparently invariant constant is broken and subjected under the user’s control. The idea to decouple the personal perception from the natural timing enables the user to become aware of his own time.

In the inside of the helmet the Video-signal of a camera is processed by a small computer. The slowed down images are displayed right before the user’s eyes via a Head-Mounted Display and simultaneously shown at a monitor on the outside. In three different modes the lapse of time can be influenced through a remote control:

In the auto-mode time is slowed down automatically and re-accelerated after a defined interval. The press-mode allows the specific deceleration of time and in the scroll-mode the user can completely control the speed of the elapsing of time.

The idea to decouple the personal perception from the natural timing enables the user to become aware of his own relationship to time. The helmet works as a reflection-bubble to think about the flow of time in general and the relation between sensory perception, environment and corporality in particular.

The technique of the Decelerator extends the awareness of time and transforms the concept of present in a constructed, artificial state. On a different level the helmet dramatically visualizes how slowing down under all circumstances causes a loss of actuality and as idea is inconsistent with its environment. It raises the general question how technology will shape our senses in the future, how this shift to a personalized perception could change our view of the world and eventually will lead to an detachment of our global convention of reality.