100 words to describe the project

05Jun10

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.