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Best Simon Simon Biggs [email protected] [email protected] Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research in CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: John Wild <[email protected]> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:21:58 +0000 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [NetBehaviour] The first radiation porn star! > > In 2006 I created a number of artworks exploring how states view their > citizens in the post 9/11 climate. In OTerminal > 4<http://www.rupture.co.uk/Terminal%204.html>¹, > an A2 duratrans mounted on a light box, and OSelf Portrait using Backscatter > Radiation <http://www.rupture.co.uk/Self_portrait.html>¹, a 78²x 48² Digital > C-Type Print, I gained unique access to the images created by the > controversial Rapiscan Secure 1000 security > scanner<http://www.rapiscansystems.com/rapiscan-secure-1000.html>currently > in use at Heathrow and across America. > > The Scanner creates security images of travellers through a process known as > backscatter radiation, an image is produced by firing a low level of > radiation at the traveller and analyzing the radiation that is bounced back. > Radiation penetrates below the clothing and is reflected from the skin (or > bones that are close to the surface) allowing a computer to generate an > image of the bodies¹ surface. > > Since 2006 I have been inundated with requests to use the Terminal 4 image, > particularly from campaigners against airport scanners in the USA and it has > become one of the main image of the NATIONAL OPT-OUT > DAY!<http://www.optoutday.com/>organised for Wednesday, November 24th > 2010. > > However the popularity of the image with campaign groups has led to my > images attracting a different audience.I have started receiving emails > asking whether I can supply more backscatter radiation images and a google > search brought up my image on the front cover of the dubious looking TSA > Scans Magazine <http://www.tsascansmag.com/>. > > One email I received from a New York fetish club claims that my image is so > popular with their members that they would be prepared to pay a decent price > for more XXX-Radiation Porn! It seems that what started out as an esoteric > artwork created in 2006 may have inadvertently turned me into the first > radiation porn star! > > -- > > //////////////////////////////// > ////// johnwild.info ////// > //////////////////////////////// > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
