November 12, 2007
body as a living (pain) map

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


see also news as pain.
(Via information aesthetics.)
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Category: electronic cultureTags: art, augmented body, augmented reality, body, geography, map, mapping, network, pain, psychogeography, tangible, visualisation, wifi, wireless |
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