Digital Craft Minor 2017 - How to be human

technology and the body

collaboration with Vera, Philip

The parts of the body we are working with are the eye, mind & body. During the first class we did some sketching and brainstorming for our first idea's. To merge the three parts was a challenge so we focused on what we found interesting. What worked well for us was to take it step by step. And the first thing we wanted to do was to copy a hole body. The slitscan was the first prototype. We took pictures with a webcam and through processing we literally abused someone's body by deforming it. We wanted to bring this concept to the next level and decided to produce a 3D file from the visitors of the exhibition (live). We want them to feel the detachment of their body. What did not work well for us was the technical part behind it, and since it was only a week's time we considered a new solution.

http://neural.it/2017/07/the-digital-skin-series-the-stranger-in-my-face/

http://neural.it/2004/07/fenlandia-slow-pixels/

concept

Nowadays the abusing of your identity happens more and more in a digital context. The interesting part is that we allow our pictures and other content to services. Because we want to use their services we accept the terms without knowing what to do with now our shared content. It feels that we are being abused. This was an interesting thought we continued to work on. The first step was to get the image of a visitor through a webcam. The exposure to this also plays a role because it extrinsically infringes you as a person. There for the webcam is attached to a spotlight. The next step is that thousands of pixels appear on the screen and slowly take your identity to one frame. To show how this looks like, you'll find my bodypart, the eye below. After this your photo will appear on any conceivable monitor in the room to make you aware of the consequences.

We live in a digital era in which it is nearly impossible to stay anonymous. The digital world contains so many recources that are directly available. Especially the fact that the accessibility takes so little time is quite convenient. When a service has a large amount of users, it creates a feeling that the service can be used safely, and makes an individual blindly trust it. The desire to use a popular service as fast as possible in today’s time spirit, results in skipping to read the services’ terms and conditions. Besides, what harm can pressing ‘I agree’ actually cause? Somewhere in these conditions you will be protected, one would think. Somewhere in the back of your mind you know a few negative scenarios that have happened to a few unknown people. But in comparison to the fact that so many people use these services it would never happen to you. But should you really expose so much of your body, your identity, your brains, to the eyes of the whole world? The digital network and the amount of (personal) data is growing to extends we can not even imagine. And because of this unimaginable factor the awareness of our digital footprint we leave behind for eternity fades away. With the project of ‘I agree’ we want to raise awareness about this phenomenon of blindly accepting the terms and conditions of these services, and possible consequences. [edit]

the process: I agree' consists of a webcam attached to box with the terms and conditions. They asks if you will agree to see what's next. Pressing the button will make the webcam take your picture and spread it to multiple screens throughout the room. If you reed the terms and conditions you would know this. If you feel abused their is a way back. Enter all your information, the ironic part, delete your foto out of the databank and to complete you pay 5,- by a simple payment system.

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Inhuman Factors / Sensitivity Training

Gij zult niet storen - EMP/ EMP device stands for electromagnetic pulseEMP devices can damage any electronic devices or disturbed there working. I did not want to be disturbed by sensors that abuse because of my presence. I convert a electric fly swatter into electromagnetic pulse gun. By removing the case and replace it with homemade copper coil. When you discharge the capacitor into the coil,electromagnetic pulse is created by high voltage absorbed in capacitor. I used different coils but not one damaged my test object. When I tested this all the way in the station, this was not taken into account. On the internet they tell you to be really careful and to keep your electronic devices away. I also really like the conversations on the internet about this 'gun'. How this is will only be appreciated by terrorists, criminals or the american army haha. It was a fun day to explore the subject but because it did not work at all I went to something else.

Virtual sensor, Matlab - Motion-Based Multiple Object Tracking, The example shows how to perfom automatic detection and motion-based tracking of moving objects in a video from a stationary camera. Detection of moving objects and motion-based tracking are important components of many computer vision applications, including activity recognition, traffic monitoring, and automotive safety. The detection of moving objects uses a background subtraction algorithm based on Gaussian mixture models. Morphological operations are applied to the resulting foreground mask to eliminate noise. Finally, blob analysis detects groups of connected pixels, which are likely to correspond to moving objects.

'beyond own biological limits.'

sensor types: Hall-sensor / Fluxgate magnetometer

prototype

http://dewidevree.org/magnetoceptia-2/

http://www.rlfbckr.org/work/the-conversation/

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mind of the machine

collaboration with Jeanine

http://www.dwbowen.com/underwater/

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