Pausing until I don’t know
As I’ve not had the time to post my stuff here lately, I’ll be pausing this until I want to continue.
Anyway, keywords for the following months are Skrekkøgle, music making, exhibition and new job.
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Videos from AHO works exhibition
Finally managed to put my videos online, clips from the exhibiton is below. I think they turned out OK, Anthony, Ola and Nick were performing nicely. Thanks to those who tried it!
Ola:
Nick:
Anthony:
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Oh yeah;
Note to self: SPELL CHECK.
Printing out big posters with a typo is just plain stupid. Zwang in german is written with a W, not a V as I’ve written. But nobody except germans will notice I’m sure.
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Done and done.
Thanks for now, this course is over and the exhibit is running, I’m going to put a videodocumentation of my piece online once I’ve had the time to edit it.
Next semester coming up after summer: my master’s thesis. Title for now: How to make life interesting.
(the solution is simple, just make it something you’d want to watch on TV…)
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DREIßIG SEKUNDEN ZWANGS-ZITTERN is an installation that causes direct bodily responses by overriding the impulses sent from the brain. The reason for this is to let people experience how involuntary muscle movement such as tremor work.
The user is invited to moisten and put her forearm on electrodes. She is then challenged to complete a standardized medical tremor test while receiving a series of 50 volt jolts into the arm. The test is two quick writing exercises and two drawing tasks. The electric shocks cause muscles to contract, which makes the hand shake. This renders the task exiting and difficult to complete.
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Universitas
Tangible interactions course interview in the student newspaper Universitas (in norwegian) :
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My arm burns
It is exciting trying out a homemade zapper, and I finally got the thing I’m building working.
But tweaking it to get the right amplitude and effect can be painful, as I’m constantly being reminded of.
Trying to draw spirals while being electrocuted
Anyway, with a little help on finding the right el. schematics from Frode, the helpful ex-electroengineer at school, I bought the components needed, which I figured weren’t that many really as I could replace a bunch of them with an arduino. Hooking them up and spending the day getting the frequencies right through code, it seems I’m on the right track.
Arduino as pulse generator for transistor
The electrodes, (the pads connected to the arm) need to be further apart from each other than I expected, so a small redesign of the station will have to be done. If I don’t, you get these small burn marks that sting a bit.
The setup of electronics, the cardboard thingy is the arm/electrode connector
The theme of the project has also been modified a bit, from Parkinson’s disease tremor to tremor in general, where you are given a (standard medical tremor test) task to complete with shaking forced on your arm through electricity.
Attempts at drawing spirals while getting shocks
I can because of the general theme do a little more experimental stuff with the graphics etc, e.g. give the installation a german name, becase it sounds a bit more, uhm, evil. Well, not exactly evil, but harder anyway. And I want the installation to have a somewhat hard, medical aesthetic, which the germans are good at. So the name is now Dreißig sekunden zvangs-zittern, which I got translated from “Thirty seconds forced tremor” by a german friend of mine, Hannes Harms
First sketch of signage, needs to be tweaked a little
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