body as a living (pain) map

12 November 2007

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a chest strap (corset) equipped with high torque servo motors & a WiFi-enabled game-console that "visualizes" the presence of closed, encrypted wireless networks through bodily pain. "everyday walks between home, work & leisure are recompiled into a schizogeographic pain-map" (literally) imprinted on the human body.

by keeping track of any alteration of everyday walking routines, the resulting geographical GPS maps show a psychogeographic pain-map, as well as reveal the wearer’s admiration for gentle tortures.

[link: yugo.at & neural.it|via we-make-money-not-art.com]

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This is a good idea how?

marcus . 12 November 2007

Huh? So, literally, if this guy walks past an encrypted network, the device, like, pinches him? WTF

Allan . 12 November 2007

Until I followed some of the links, I didn't even understand what this device did. Now I understand that it constricts harder the stronger or more numerous closed wireless networks there are. Okay. As has been already said, WTF? I mean, what sort of teenage sado-melodramatic "artist" bs is this? It's not that I think pain is intrinsically bad or anything like that, or even that likely pain is bad, but if you're going to have devices that hurt you, why should it be for something so arbitrary as walking past a wireless router? At least "The Walker" is interactive (though still I maintain, stupid).

bengreen . 14 November 2007

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