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Flugversuch Jörg Brinkmann

Jörg Brinkmann: plug and pray

Bachelorprojekt der Professur Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen Winter 2008

This Experiment took its start from the intention to come closer to the machine. I wanted to figure out if there would be a different feeling when a machine is added to my body.

Would I myself become a machine ?

Would the machine become human ? Would the two of us band together and become something else ?

After some experiments with an ECG sensor, which I used for measuring my muscle tension, I got the idea of building mechanical wings that would be controlled by my muscle tension. This is a mechanism similar to the principle of a prosthesis. Since my project was not about replacing a missing body part (the usual function of a prosthesis) but rather about adding something to the body, the term prosthesis didn't work in this context. This project was also not about building something that would have a special function or serve an exact purpose. So my intention was obviously not to take wing. This experiment was rather seen as a possibility to experience the machine. The video shows this experience: as you can see, constant and measured body movements create a steady movement of the wings. So I have to conduct myself like a machine in order to achieve a synchronization. On the other hand, random movements let the machine break out and create an unpredictable life of its own.

Herausgeber: Jörg Brinkmann

Prüfer: Prof. Ursula Damm, Max Neupert

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 ''Bachelorprojekt der Professur '''[[GMU:Start|Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen]]''' Winter 2008''
-''Mental Radio'' ist der Titel eines Buches von Upton Sinclair aus dem Jahre 1930, in dem er die telepathischen Experimente mit seiner Frau Craig nieder schrieb. Das Vorwort zu dem Bericht verfasste kein Geringerer als Albert Einstein. In der Tat kursierte in den Anfängen des Medium Radio die Annahme, dass elektromagnetische Wellen auch das Material seien, aus dem unsere Gedanken bestünden.
+This Experiment took its start from the intention to come closer to the machine. I wanted to figure out if there would be a different feeling when a machine is added to my body.
-Studierende der Professuren Experimentelles Radio und Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen haben sich dieser Annahme aus heutiger Sicht genähert und zu Begriffen wie Äther, Schwingung, Frequenz oder Resonanz geforscht und gearbeitet. Im Mittelpunkt stand dabei die Frage, inwieweit frühe, mediale Phantasmen eingelöst, enttäuscht oder übertroffen wurden und inwieweit heutige Erkenntnisse aus der Hirnforschung sowie aktuelle Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der drahtlosen Kommunikation zu neuen künstlerischen Modellen führen können.
+Would I myself become a machine ?
+Would the machine become human ? Would the two of us band together and become something else ?
+After some experiments with an ECG sensor, which I used for measuring my muscle tension, I got the idea of building mechanical wings that would be controlled by my muscle tension. This is a mechanism similar to the principle of a prosthesis. Since my project was not about replacing a missing body part (the usual function of a prosthesis) but rather about adding something to the body, the term prosthesis didn't work in this context. This project was also not about building something that would have a special function or serve an exact
+purpose. So my intention was obviously not to take wing. This experiment was rather seen as a possibility to experience the machine.
+The video shows this experience: as you can see, constant and measured body movements create a steady movement of the wings. So I have to conduct myself like a machine in order to achieve a synchronization. On the other hand, random movements let the machine break out and create an unpredictable life of its own.
 Herausgeber: [[Jörg Brinkmann]]