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Witnesses, spiritual circuit bending

Zach Poff, chiara ciociola, Witnesses, witnesses.jpg

These chant-boxes are electronic devices sometimes provided to help believers pray in Buddhist temples in China. The gadgets, similar to pocket radios and sometimes packaged with images of Buddha, broadcast loops of prayer, helping the believers to follow the rhythms of the litany. In the sound installation "Witnesses" the artist Zach Poff has made use of these devices, but has changed their ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:00 PM - May 23/2012
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Faith Condition, religious technologies

Condition Faith, Lukas Franciszkiewicz, Vito Campanelli, faith_condition.jpg

Faith Condition is the graduation project in Industrial Design by Lukas Franciszkiewicz, a designer who has focused his creative practice on some important questions concerning our media society. In particular Franciszkiewicz focused his research on the inability of traditional religions to fully understand the notion of altered sensory perception. The work Faith Condition questions a trend ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:36 AM - May 17/2012
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Empathy Box, share your pain

Empathy Box, iocose, empathy_box_iocose.jpg

Empathy Box, by the Italian iocose collective, is a device that generates pain that is meant to be shared. This is a box made out of both metal and wood, and is reminiscent of the type of vintage radios people used to sit around and listen to collectively. But instead of music or words, the users voluntarily share pain. An electric shock of an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:40 AM - Apr 6/2010
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