Degradation of the human body, desperado technopop by Daito Manabe

On 28.October 2008, I was the first time informed about the work of Daito Manabe, a Japanese artist and programmer. I almost forgot about this project, till today a friend made me again aware of it, so here my comment. The Siggraph emerging tech-nologies exhibition hall is for years filled with Japanese and later also other Asian tech-noids (I cant find the right word for this engineering driven stupidity). The tech-noids trying since years to connect the body to the machine <-> machine to the body. I personally can not stand this Asian nonsense. After talking to them asking why and for what they are doing it, they have no idea, it is tech-no fetish. Stick your tong in here, your hand, beam a laser in your eyes and so on, engineering stupidity showed up every year, I quitted Siggraph mainly because of that. Siggraph 2006 Boston "The Forehead Retina System, designed at the University of Tokyo, allows the user to experience tactile electrical feedback through the forehead to real objects in the environment."

I do not understand what the teachers in these Universities are doing, what are they teaching to the students? In my view this is the unreflected engagement therapy for these students to keep them bussy. Tech-no therapy. In the art market we had the cyborgization of Stelarc, his work is so exaggerated that it became tech-no baroque. He is a friend of mine, but after his last works i am loosing the sense for it, it seams to me like a unreflected process which says. "ok I did this for the last 20 years so I stay on it", its to late to change or develope something different. Like the Detroit car makers, they crashing the earth and they know very well about there crimes against humanity, but they went on building machines which destroy our planet. Now Stelarc is experimenting with Biotech.

Similar this Japanese DJVJ, it is unethical and inhuman, we do not need to be connected to machines! Already the iPhone is too much, your finger becomes part of the circuit, without skin touch the device does not open.

The ongoing intrucion of machines in to the body, I can see a sense for peopel who need prostheses, to keep them going but we donot need to make out of healthy humans prostheses. Daito Manabe should attend the Paralympic games, to get a better inspiration.

The Japanese already ones introduced the same brainset, in the moving image and animation domain, the uglyness of computergraphics. Peopel have been fascinated what all is possible to create with these beatiful machines -computer graphics. Feeded ower the Siggraph (one boring sake barrel party each year after the other), Yoichiro Kawaguchi's work was the upturn for me in this genre. STOP THAT NONSENSE!

See: Guillaume Duchenne , and some discussion about electric-stimulus-to-face and Oscar Pistorius the blade runner.

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