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notes - Augmented Body
(1) Bad Girl Versus the Astronaut Christ – The Strange Political Journey of the Cyborg, Hari Kunzru in Ars Electronica 97
(2) Professor Richard Dawkins - author of the Selfish Gene amongst others - is quoted in Dolly part three of Three Tales a documentary digital video opera. Created by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot - I attended a performance at The Barbican in September 2002 - below are quotes from the programme notes:
| BK Also, in contrast to the first two acts, 'Dolly' is looking within, to ourselves, to the impact of technology on our own physical bodies. And it symbolised the whole range of issues now brought about by technology to impact on our bodies, not only by manipulating the basic blueprint of the body, but by actually bringing technology into our bodies. SR ...in 'Dolly' letting the audience see and hear important scientists themselves in an unusual context of musical theatre. The audience draws its own conclusions about the character and intent of these scientists and one religious figure. |
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(3) THE INVERTED RELAY RACE (and other observations) by Amanda Steggell of Motherboard - first published in the 1998 spring edition of the DANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL, August 1996 - http://www.notam02.no/motherboard/2.html - Motherboard created an installation hacking Furbies (Vienna Festival 1999) but what inspired me most about the company was the small cases they would tour with - have technology will travel.
(4) This Is The Story Of The Most Fearless Entrepreneur Ever: The Human Brain – John Hockenberry – Wired, August 2001, pg 94.
(5) This quote is transcribed from a video tape of Trevor Heale of General Robotics Limited, Milton Keynes - they produce Remotely Operated Vehicle Simulator and Control Systems. These systems control vehicles in sewage systems and subsea settings. All variables of demand shape, acceleration and deceleration, the varying degrees of speed between movements which naturally occur due to gravity have to be calculated and programmed. Robots control tools for use in inaccessible situations but it’s the human interface that make the decisions. Links to this company are at www.generalrobotics.co.uk and www.rovolution.net but you will need to be viewing it on a Windows PC to control the simulations.
| "Now the power that we have here if you just look through this list, each of these are different, now each of these are a completely different simulator for different tasks, an ROV (remote operated vehicle or under water tractor) submarine rescue or intervention, each up until now would have required a different simulator… What we have done and it’s unique, we’ve created a software world where you can configure it in anyway that you like and anything that you put into that world will behave like it does in the real world. So you can simulate any process in the same hardware. It’s just a case of opening and closing a document as you would in Word and that configuration determines what simulator. What we have is a central database and then each computer via a network can connect to that database." | |||
Below I am controlling a submarine around a oil rig with Trevor explaining from the side.
(6) Segway - links http://www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3232.lasso and http://segway.weblogs.com/
(7) A quote transcribed from - Why do things so often go wrong? - presented by Peter Day – broadcast on Radio 4 – Winter 2001.
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