clean

c r e a t e a ne x p e r i e n c e

( p e r f o r m a n c e + r )

an aesthetic experience ….

‘no experience of whatever sort is a unity unless it has (a)esthetic quality’. p.40

‘according to Dewey this quality that rounds out an experienceinto completeness and unity ....

pick your strongest mediaor

inversely explore the totally new!

designers stand between revolution and the everyday. p. antonelli.

FLESH

sustainabilty got sexy.

www.designledfutures.com/

The designer of the “Smell +” project, James Auger, said he wanted to underscore the diminished importance the sense of smell had in our lives by creating a device that allowed people to smell each other’s bodily scents before they met. It would be a kind of olfactory blind-dating service.

Is it a serious proposal? Mr. Auger, who is from Britain, hedges. The science of smell, he notes, is serious, and he cites research into smell as a marker for genetic compatibility. He said he was fascinated by science and scientists, who were “creating amazing possibilities of what it means to be human. But they don’t necessarily understand what to be human is. That’s where design can play a very important role.”

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EXPERIENCE

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;

As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143William Shakespeare

MILLIGRAM EXP.1963

THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT

The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the latter believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an actor and confidant. The subject believes that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual electric shocks, though in reality there were no such punishments. Being separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=274wQJmdRQg

THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT

The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the latter believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an actor and confidant. The subject believes that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual electric shocks, though in reality there were no such punishments. Being separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk

painstation

painstation

painstation

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFPURsKKh8

posture:gesture:pain

SPREZZATURA

art of decieving

The Meaning of SprezzaturaThe meaning of sprezzatura in art and life in the High Renaissance is difficult to determine. Part of the trouble stems from the contradictions inherent in the word itself; it is paradoxical, closely related to grace, but with slightly different connotations. Castiglione's Book of the Courtier elaborated on what the word meant for social interaction. A character in the book, Count Ludovico, explains the meaning of grace, and in it he mentions sprezzatura. "It is an art which does not seem to be an art. One must avoid affectation and practice in all things a certain sprezzatura, disdain or carelessness, so as to conceal art, and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it....obvious effort is the antithesis of grace." The most important aspect of sprezzatura is its two-layered nature: it involves a conscious effort which is disguised by a concealing act. Things which require effort are to be performed casually. Count Ludovico seems to be saying that grace arises out of sprezzatura. Anthony Blunt interprets it this way: "It will vanish ifa man takes too much pains to attain it, or if he shows any effort to attain it. Nothing but complete ease can produce it. The only effort which should be expended in attaining it is an effort to conceal the skill on which it is based; and it is from sprezzatura, or recklessness, that grace springs." In High Renaissance life, the courtiers wanted to put on a kind of performance, a subtle one, without allowing anyone to know it was self-conscious and deliberate behavior.

SPREZZATURA

art of decieving

1528,art of looking and acting noble or aristocratic – hence the gestures + posturesrise sociallyhow to look like you are not scheming – physical elegance – today (campness )very studied at the time.

you have stolen my umbrella

SPREZZATURA

art of deceivingantoine caron, massacre of the triumverates. 1562

legs important and any opportunity to show them in the court ….the act of spressatur-ing could be today considered remaining in formal / classic ballet

high heels

high heelsposturegesture

movementmen, too

garth pugh

high heelsposture today?

posture:gesture:pain

dance of formsbauhaus

marie chouinard

marie chouinardbODY_rEMIX / gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS

stelarc

marie chouinardCantique 3

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e-art/e/marie-chouinard.html

rebecca horn

rebecca horn

stelarc

pierce ‘n brushmoloudi hadji

multilfunctional objectsfor a multi-tasking everday

EYE CANDY

Each of your senses (touch, smell, sight, taste, hearing) sends information to the brain at a different frequency. The brain determines where the sensorial information it receives comes from by the frequency at which it resonates, it can then process it in the appropriate way (e.g. turn sight information from the eyes into pictures in the mind). An array of resonators positioned on the surface of an Eye Candy transmit information from the tongue to the brain at the frequency that the eyes usually send visual information to the brain. A pleasant sensation of soda bubbles can be felt on the tongue as the mind decodes this sensorial information as vivid pictures.

This process is called sensory substitution and can be used to supplement peoples senses, enabling them to see the evocative images contained within Eye Candy.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/286-mixed_feelings.html

embedded memories

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wallpaper

Meaning arises when we try to put what culture and language have crystallized from the past, together with what we feel, wish and think about our present point in life.

V. Turner.

A Large Slow RiverJanet Cardiff

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George Bures Miller

The world is experienced through our body and it is a sensual and emotive experience. The relationship of body, gesture and artefact is a process of intimate interaction and not just ‘action

on the material world’. They are actions that are thought about and felt.

Merleau-Ponty (2002) describes this as a process of intercorporeality, where emotions are both worldly and material in form.

EXPERIENCE AS TOLD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk Miligram Exp

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFPURsKKh8 PAIN STATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwCoSxi9TJU marie chouinard

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e-art/e/marie-chouinard.html cantata 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3DfebecTcQ&feature=related r horn pencils

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0uNnmAudmk finger gloves