human body

SHE BON

Sarah Petkus (US)

The SHE BON project is a collection of body augments which sense aspects of the wearer’s physical state in order to communicate sexual arousal. Collectively, the systems that have been developed for this project make up a highly personalized “suit of amour” capable of orchestrating sensor input from the body in order to display mechanical and electronic forms of performative output which express subtle aspects of the wearer’s physical state in a manner that characterizes their sexual identity.

I, HUMAN

SAINT MACHINE (RO)

I, HUMAN uses empathy as content to influence the feeding conditions of microorganisms, and light as content carrier. Developed around the idea of interconnectivity, it analyzes how individual interactions can produce collective outcomes at different scales. I, HUMAN is testing new models of synergistic behavior mediated by technology in an attempt to identify coherence patterns, a metaphor for our evolution as a species, which may depend on our capacity to empathize.