User:Vera/minor

Project 1:On The Body

SANNE and PHILIP

DWARING A BODY PART -
sanne - eye
philip - brains/mind
vera- the hole body in one line



Project 2:SENSOR

JEANINE and THARIM




Project 3: Mind (of) the Machine

JOCHEM and TIMO

---

Project 1:On The Body

poster of I AGREE

FIRST IDEA SLITSCAN

eye, brain, the hole body in one line. Recreate a full image off movings.
Slitscan, the first prototype of taking pictures using the webcam. Using a program called 'Processing' we literally abused someone's body by deforming it:

Before you are able use 'I agree' you have to agree to the terms and conditions
Have you read the terms of use?
No. Have you accepted them? Yes.
You probably have never thought about the possible consequences of signing a contract which you have not read.
Although millions of people do it everyday,
by pressing ‘I Agree’ at the end of every pop up screen of terms of and conditions you come across.

Thank you for letting us confiscate your personal freedom.
By blindly accepting the terms and conditions,
you have officially lost control over your rights regarding the service you are using.
From this moment,
your personal data are now under copyright of I agree, or any other service you agreed to use.
And because of this unimaginable factor the awareness of our digital footprint we leave behind for eternity fades away.

Congratulations,
you have now exposed yourself to the whole world (wide web) to see.
Your identity is now forever stored on the web.
Your online ID will forever be accessible for the eyes of everyone.

Concept

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] Research

'I agree' consists of a webcam attached to a long pole standing straight, with a spotlight shining in the background. A welcoming voice of a woman beckons people to come closer and asks if they will agree to see what's next. If they agree, she tells them to press the button. Pressing this button will make the webcam take your picture and spread it to multiple screens throughout the room.

We became interested in further 'abusing' and deforming the body in a digital way. So we thought further into how this actually happens online in any sort of way. The most interesting thing we could think of was the fact that our pictures and other content gets abused by services we use. That is where the concepts originated from.

'I agree' consists of a webcam attached to a long pole standing straight, with a spotlight shining in the background. A welcoming voice of a woman beckons people to come closer and asks if they will agree to see what's next. If they agree, she tells them to press the button. Pressing this button will make the webcam take your picture and spread it to

people they I AGREED

final product

---

SENSORS AND SENSITIVITY

behavioural stretching

start making a sensor, fabric waving with conductive dreath. waving in this structure makes a honey comb, it gives hight to the fabric to make a press sensor.

so we chose the way of conductive material, French knitting with wool and conductive thread. To make this work we attached the cord to the arduino. One end would be attached to the 5v pin of the arduino and the other side would be connected to the A0 pin and the ground pin. In between the ground pin and the cord we placed a 680 Ω resistor. The cord is now acting as a potmeter. When you pull the cord the resistance of the cord becomes smaller. The arduino measures the difference in voltage of the A0 pin and the ground pin and it translates this to serial data.

We programmed the arduino so that it translated the serial data to frequencies. For example, when the cord is in resting position the arduino monitor would read 520 and when we pull the string it would read 960. We would map the arduino to output a frequency of 0hz when it reads 520 and 1000hz when it reads 960.

The serial data received from the arduino could be used in many ways. We also experimented with other sounds and samples by connecting the serial port (where the arduino was attached to) to Ableton live. The sensor could trigger all sorts of instruments, effects, and automation. We didn’t use this way of working in the end because you always had to be near a computer to use the sensor.

starting france knitting

For our presentation, we wanted to connect the result of pulling the string to the action that was needed to pull the string. The group of third-year students had made some videos that inspired us. In their video, they exaggerated the movement the body makes while stretching.

It gets interesting when you can make people do stuff without necessary commanding them to. We wanted to make people stretch without them being aware that that was our purpose. To achieve this we placed several chords on different heights in the staircase. By curiosity or simply because they were confronted with a strange object in the -semi-public space people would pull or touch -accidentally- the cord. When noticing there was a sound coming out of it, they would reach higher and higher for the other cords.

You could say that in the end the artifact was not only the cord, but the people stretching to pull the cord.

Project 3: Mind (of) the Machine

Reconstructed Memories Workshop

Artificial Intelligence
Floor of Ceiling?

Artificial Intelligence is most of the time based on face recognition algorithm's. They work with familiar faces from celebrities and animals.

Floor of Ceiling is based on not the usual libery's that you can find about racongition. it's a space and the Artificial Intelligence can learn it wrong. we chiche to do this to play with the Artificial Intelligence of the computer themself. computers can't be angry about the fact that we give the wrong input.

So we try this also at google image and google image make from the ceilng a floor and from the floor a ceiling. it it's a very small exampel but it was a kind of funny because it is even hard for human beinig to recanze also the floor of ceiling. But human beiging have some persepion what is good or wrong.