The body has always been our primary interface–which some artists and technologists are starting to hack.
The body has always been our primary interface–which some artists and technologists are starting to hack.
About as far from Microsoft Word as you can get: Ommwriter screencast.
Video artist Gary Hill once responded to the question of how his work should be displayed when CRTs became obsolete with the suggestion that his video should be projected on his viewers’ bodies from inside their skin. When Hill was participating in the TechArcheology workshops a decade ago, this suggestion sounded flippant (and was perhaps meant to be). But now mainstream science has caught up with this nutty vision, and it looks like the porn industry won’t be far behind. So what happens when your LED tattoo goes obsolete? Microsoft customers had better be diligent about downloading the latest “patches,” or they’ll end up sporting the Blue Skin of Death.
New Media at the University of Maine
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