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.

Ola:

Nick:

Anthony:

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.

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…)

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.

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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