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The Body Electric: Wearables!
Name	The Body Electric: Wearables!
Location	NDSM
Date	2019/07/25-2019/07/26
Time	9:30-16:30
PeopleOrganisations	Erik Overmeire, Hackers & Designers
Type	HDSA2019
Web	Yes
Print	No

To conclude the HDSA2019 Hackers & Designers proposed a two day workshop to push our understanding of technologies in relation to our bodies further. Erik Overmeire

[1] introduced us to the making of wearable tech using sensors, arduinos and leds. Building on the data collection and the sensors experimentations done in prior workshops we developed futuristic wearables that visualised our environment (our inner selves) in relation to our environment.

Erik Overmeire has been working on developing this kind of technology for several art projects such as The Human Sensor and Coral Love Stories for the artist Kasia Molga or Wearable Facade for Popkalab.

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+|Date=2019/07/25-2019/07/26
 |Time=9:30-16:30
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+|PeopleOrganisations=Erik Overmeire, Hackers & Designers
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-The effects of climate change gave rise to a perceptual shifting within human history unveiled a time where massive non-human entities distributed in time and space make decisive contact with humans, threatening to end important human concepts, such as, world, horizontal nature and environment. The impossibility to ignore such effects and entities ignited a shift of the centre of the world away from the human realm, forcing humans to see themselves from a third-person perspective, making it impossible for them to archive final distance towards the world.
+To conclude the HDSA2019 Hackers & Designers proposed a two day workshop to push our understanding of technologies in relation to our bodies further. Erik Overmeire
+ [http://www.lifthoofd.nl] introduced us to the making of wearable tech using sensors, arduinos and leds. Building on the data collection and the sensors experimentations done in prior workshops we developed futuristic wearables that visualised our environment (our inner selves) in relation to our environment.
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+Erik Overmeire has been working on developing this kind of technology for several art projects such as The Human Sensor and Coral Love Stories for the artist Kasia Molga or Wearable Facade for Popkalab.
-Inherent to some of the contemporary discourse on ecological awareness is a return to the old stable ecosystem, a Natural State, a suggestive CTRL+Z to the Holocene which sees the modern man as a cancerous alien entity. This belief stimulates fantasies on what the world might end up on the verge of human extinction. This fascination for post-apocalyptic scenarios is something familiar to all lovers of fiction. This world which we are presented is both different to anything one has ever experienced, yet familiar enough to recognise.
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-In Generating Distance the participants designed an action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective which was played in the real world. Via the use of cameras connected to a headset the participants were able to experience the distance of their own body, developing an uncanny awareness of their own movements and actions and positioning their own selves in the world of fiction. Allowing a sociological and physical distance between themselves player and their character.
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