Event Blog #3
For this event, I went to a presentation given by Dr. Vesna. There she showed selected works that were judged at Ars Electronica, a festival that holds a competition which honors specific works. As she is on the panel, she showed us artworks which she herself thought were interesting or caught her eye. I will just go over three of my favorites from her selection of 26. The first one that caught my eye was an artwork called the Neurotransmitter 3000 by Daniel de Bruin. It was a ride that was controlled by your heart rate, body temperature, and muscle tension. The ride essentially is a chair you strap yourself into and which turns you upside down and rolls you around. The speed and eccentricity of the ride is determined by how scared you are, as measured by the various electronics. There is then a feedback between machine and man. I feel like the name and ride itself exemplify how the brain functions, how cognition affects the world and the world acts on the
