Toolkit, tutorial, manual, 2016-2019
In collaboration with Wolfgang Spahn.
The toolkit refers to the nature of the electrical signal as the base for digital computation and invites the user to experience electricity with their own bodies. This project offers a conceptual framework for experiencing electricity, introduces the scientific basis for the experiments, and provides a step-by-step tutorial for the use of the tools for experiencing electricity. Focusing on information processing between organic and inorganic matter, the toolkit introduces two interfaces: 1) an LED lit up by energy generated by the human body and 2) sound generated from a difference in temperature between a human and their environment. Proposing the building of simple interfaces between living organisms and machines without using a battery, the user becomes independent of the electricity supply.
The experimentation is supported by a video tutorial and a manual, both available in the toolkit.
The reduced version of the original toolkit was built for the newest Artworks edition of the Eigenheim gallery in Berlin and Weimar to be presented in May 2020. Both toolkits are part of the Introduction to Posthuman Aesthetics work series.
I would like to express my gratitude to Wolfgang Spahn, who has kindly helped to develop an interface that generates sounds from the human body and also in the production of the video tutorial. The project was kindly supported by the Nordic Culture Point and by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
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