December 2009
1 post
November 2009
9 posts
The Scale is Everything
The Scale is Everything is an interactive installation that examines eating
disorders, dissatisfaction, perfection and anonymity in the internet
culture.
The Roofing video piece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb3aoZv2Pmw
is made by collecting found text and serial numbers
(height and weight) related to the published history of eating
disorders. These statistics, and...
October 2009
17 posts
Practising To Be Less Sensitive
Wearable Computer Soft Project; I Need You. by...
As I said in our class, my first idea was:
I Cannot Hear You.
“Beep! Swipe the card again.”
Everyone is wearing a wristband with a beeper on it. When someone approaches another within a certain radius, the beeper lets off warning sounds, “Beep, beep!” to prevent people from getting too near and close to each other.
This situation represents the ironic human wish to approach others, but to...
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Serious image addiction
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ →
http://www.ayahbdeir.com/ →
I Cannot Hear You. “Beep! Swipe the card again.” Everyone is wearing a wristband with a beeper on it. When someone approaches another within a certain radius, the beeper lets off warning sounds, “Beep, beep!” to prevent people from getting too near and close to each other. This situation represents the ironic human wish to approach others, but to keep a certain distance between each other. They...
“[Life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5) Identity or self-awareness is sometimes amorphous in modern society. Images and sounds abound and are overflowing all around, and individual selves are drowning amidst them, failing to take form, failing to be given a name. The avatar in cyberspace in the twenty-first century is a...
“How poor we are. We make perfect images, and often fail to get that image.
How...”