Adding to new dimensions in wearable and digital technologies
Monday, June 20, 2011 at 01:03AM I visited the Central St Martin's MA Communications Design show Last and Found this week and was drawn, in particular to two pieces of work in the Digital Media section.
Having recently twittered about Christian Stammel's article on wearable technology products catering to all five human senses because it so closely relates to the functions of human beings, this piece by Marek Kultys seems to fit in nicely within that train of thought:
‘The End of Hearing’ is an experimental project based on scientific findings on existing antibiotics which are used medically to block sound. Here Marek invites the user to help shape their soundscapes by choosing what they would trade-off in order to reach a digitally sound-balanced utopia. Visit: www.the-end-of-hearing.org
Paul Ferragut displayed two pieces of work, which he programmed with arduinos and sensors. I'm always facinated by creative, hand made robots and the first was the driving force behind a large digital painting - The pen was driven using motion sensors, one wave of the hand and the pen drew what the hand did. His second piece was a painstakingly slow work of art, interpreting an image into a series of felt pen dots on watercolour paper again driven by a small robotic arm.
Christian Stammel in his article highlights the fascinating sixth dimension of wearable technologies coming in the form of some very sophisticated technologies that read our minds. I stumbled upon Paul Ferragut and Ann-Kristin Abel's Mind control project on Ferraguts website, which literally uses the mind to move a dynamic surface via a headband that receives an elctric signal from the brain and define a value from relaxation to attention. It would be interesting tp know if it works.
Interesting additions to wearable and digital technology recearch.
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