Techsuality (part 1)

TECHSUALITY

Techsuality is the name of the upcoming exhibition on May 4th about the nature of sexual interactions via computers. There is a lot that can be read from the piece, the main part being that communicating through a computer is not what it feels to be. The cold reality is that you are sending all your love to a computer displaying text.

The installation has a lot to do with creating atmosphere. Two computers interact sexually using only the OS sounds that come with their software. A PC running Windows XP and a Mac running Snow Leopard OSX transfer sexually named files making normal sounds construed as sexual.

The installation has been through alot of revamps, we isolated on the important part and eliminated the unnecessarily complicated parts. The piece originally involved mannequins and disc drives, and the narrative was longer. However over time we simplified to convey the main point of the piece.

That said, we haven't ended some of our plans to add a little character to the installation. We will have dry ice for a sense of ominous creepiness. We may add a red or blacklight to convey the sexual head shop atmosphere further. We will siphon off our section with walls and a black curtain, the curtain will have each of us rotating dressed as bouncers to check ID's of younger visitors. How much of this make it into the final project depends on whether these things add or take away from the piece in action.

Here is a look at our poster:

K'nex Fun!

Just so nobody gets the wrong idea about my blog from the previous post, I figured switching gears to something more family friendly was appropriate. I thought Another shameless self plug for the animated short I finished: K'nex Fun! It's a cute little short about a couple of K'nex emoticon balls traveling through a rather extravagant course. enjoy!

Cock Projector

A guy named Jaime del Val is projecting something quite unexpected on the buildings of Madrid, his cock. The guy rigged a complex system of projectors, cameras, and lights to project a massive video of his cock live. One is inclined to call bullshit on this piece of performance art, but it is exactly this kind of craziness that makes it an impressive endeavor.

Granted he may not be doing the community a service with this piece, but it does have an edgy, futuristic feel to what he is trying to say. He calls his apparatus used in conjunction with the human form an example of "Pangender Cyborgs." He claims to be protesting various things such as homophobia, surveillance, control, and consumer society. I'm not sure if I'm buying his various protests, but it sure is freaky. I thought this bit of techno-performance art to be relevant to the upcoming exhibition of Techsuality.

Stop Motion Mania 2!

So I stumbled across this little stop motion piece that is just to good not to pimp out across the internet. I imagine that this was a bit of a doozy to shoot, but the best parts of it have to be the character design: simple, yet different. The music is also really fun, feels kinda house mixed with Daft Punk.