transitlab

Smell? Cut Grass, Burnt Hair, Cadaverine, Motor Oil (bio-fi).

Touch? Pierce, push, press, heat. (improvised empathetic device IED) This piece is amazing.

A custom software application continuously monitors a website (icasualties.org) that updates the personal details and numbers of slain U.S. soldiers. When new deaths are updated on the website, the data is extracted and sent wirelessly to custom hardware installed on the I.E.D. armband. The LCD readout displays the soldiers’ name, rank, cause of death and location and then triggers an electric solenoid to drive a needle into the wearers arm, drawing blood and immediate attention to the reality that a soldier has just died in the Iraq war. ?

The Studies of Work Atmospheres and Mass Production( s.w.a.m.p.)  transform imaterial light data (from web scraping, facts about the calories in a big mac etc) into a physical visceral things that affects the player generally in an uncomfortable way. They seem to be the guinea pigs for their own creations. So its nothing they wouldnt experience first. A nice do unto others as you would have done to you kind of moment. 

Go visit there site……