So youve discovered this piece of technlogy that interests you. You want to make some art about it, maybe you want to make some art with it, maybe you want to critique what lies behnd it. What is access and how can you get it….
Access can be broken into three separate albeit interrelated aspects:
- -physical/economic access (do you have the money to buy?/economics)
-intellectual access (do you have the right to use/patents)
-regulatory access (can you use this technique without crossing proscribed boundaries/can you satisfy regulations?)
If we take Stelarcs third ear as an example, it would be expensive to attach the ear surgically. The cast of his ear would have involved using a proprietry polymer, and the surgey itself may have required regulatory approval.
