All exhibition views from Z33 – House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt (BE)
Prostheses for Instincts
This investigation crosses the boundaries between artistic hypotheses and scientific experiment.
This investigation crosses the boundaries between artistic hypotheses and scientific experiment.
Based on existing technologies and speculative scenarios, this project postulates the idea of the prosthetic device. An electronic extention of the human body induces haptic stimulation similar to natural instincts which enable people to »feel« abstract data.
This work builds upon a common theme in transhumanism that is the augmentation of our natural sensory experiences and thus widening the spectrum of things that we can perceive.
In its various incarations, this work proposes scenarios of transhumanity, in which machines induce human emotions.
During a residency at Tokyo University's Meta Perception Research Group in 2009, the devices' aesthetics, functionalities and ethical aspects were explored in dialogue with the resident researchers, Carson Reynolds and Alvaro Cassinelli.
In 2010 the work was continued in a collaborative project with Fabian Hemmert and his team, during a residency at the Design Research Lab at University of the Arts Berlin.
Z33 – House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt BE (2011) / Royal College of Art, London (2008)
Devices That Alter Perceptions, UbiComp, Seoul (2008) / International Symposium of the Electronic Arts ISEA (2009), Belfast / Devices That Alter Perceptions, ISMAR, Seoul (2010)
Devices That Alter Perceptions, Book (2010)
All exhibition views from Z33 – House for Contemporary Art in Hasselt (BE)