english: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1847 italian: http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1834
Technésexual: Organic Interface for Erotic Mixed Reality Performance Txt: Micha Cardenas & Elle Mehrmand Biometric sensors, made cheaply available by do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping platforms such as Arduino, allow a shift away from visual interfaces to proprioceptive interfaces, away from the touch of a finger and towards a more internal, embodied form of sensing. One possible effect of this shift is away from the command-control methodology which was a historical basis for cybernetics, and towards a form of modulation and cooperation akin to intersubjectivity. In this paper, we will consider recent writings on interface relevant to the shift from external to internal, or from haptic to organic, discuss our experiences creating and using them, and explore some of the implications of this shift. As an illustrative example, we will discuss our work technésexual, a performance where we commit erotic acts in physical and virtual space simultaneously, using heart rate and temperature sensors to amplify and modulate the sound of our heart beats for two audiences. This performance explores how relations between people, and between people and technology, change in Mixed Reality environments. technésexual uses the body as a musical instrument to produce sound with the Puredata programming language, in order to bridge the physical performance space and the 3-dimensional multi-user virtual environment of Second Life. The sounds of our heart beats are also sent into Second Life and emanate from our avatars as they too commit erotic acts. This performance involves what we call an "organic interface", or a physical interface which responds to one's organs. Erotic touch becomes a way to activate the body and change its internal state. Read the rest at http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1847 -- micha cárdenas Co-Author, Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs, Atropos Press, http://is.gd/daO00 Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies Program, University of California, San Diego Artist/Researcher, UCSD Medical Education Artist/Theorist, bang.lab, http://bang.calit2.net blog: http://transreal.org gpg: http://is.gd/ebWx9 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
