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Taiknam Hat is a kinetic head-wear that reacts and animates in accordance with the changes in its surrounding radio frequencies. The intention of the project is to materialize the invisible and to contribute to the awareness of the increasing electromagnetic radiation.
The co-existence of all electromagnetic waves that radiate from physical devices creates an invisible landscape that interacts with physical space and its inhabitants. This landscape is transforming into a new form of pollution, the electrosmog, which has biological effects on humans and animals.
Taiknam Hat is an attempt to materialize the electrosmog, especially the contribution of immensely used cell-phones, by emulating horripilation, an automatic instinctive reaction of living creatures to sources of irritation and stress. Horripilation, which can be defined as the erection of hairs or feathers in various species under certain emotional conditions (better known as goose bumps in human body) is a temporary and local change in the skin. It is usually referred to be a part of the “fight-or-flight” reaction of animals. Animals respond to exterior threats with a reflex of their nervous system which results in either the animal fighting (anger emotion) or fleeing (fear emotion) and horripilation can be clearly observed in the moment of both reactions. In some animals, especially in birds, horripilation is also attached to another instinct, the instinct of “self-display/signaling”. Taiknam Hat utilizes the biological fact of horripilation in birds as a metaphor to express our bodies’ irritation towards electromagnetic radiation as well as to create a visual and tactile signage of their existence for other people. The headwear employs a number of movable actual feathers. These feathers become activated and move according to the existence and amount of radio frequencies at a certain location while the person who wears the hat strolls through space.
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The Taiknam Hat is composed of fixed and movable actual feathers attached on a fabric base together with a detecting/motion-driving system. A radio frequency detector constantly traces signals between 100 KHz and 1000 MHz and creates a DC power output. This live information is sent to a microcontroller, analyzed and utilized as input data that activates a motor. The motor operates a mechanical structure that holds the feathers and results in the kinetic behavior of the feathers. |
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Ricardo Nascimento,
Master Student, Kunstuniversität Linz, Interface Culture.
www.popkalab.com
ricardo [at] popkalab.com
Ebru Kurbak
PhD Candidate, Kunstuniversität Linz, Space & Design Strategies.
ebru.kurbak [at] ufg.ac.at
Fabiana Shizue
freelancer illustrator.
www.fshizue.com
fshizue [at] gmail.com
We would like to thank the teachers from IAMAS who helped a lot on the technical development of this project.
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2009
19 to 22 November - Piksel Festival in Bergen (Norway).
http://www.piksel.no/2009/04/pixelache-2009
09 to 17 May - Ich Machine festival at Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst in Oldenburg (Germany).
http://www.edith-russ-haus.de
2008
13th to 16th November at Move fair in A Coruña (Spain).
http://www.move2digital.net/
October 15 - 19, VAD festival Internacional de Vídeo i Arts Digitals, Girona, Spain.
www.vadfestival.net
September 4 – 9, Ars Electronica Festival 2008, Linz, Austria.
www.aec.at/
July 10, Lab_test:Hapiness in V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
www.v2.nl
June 6, 20th year aniversary of the Reseach Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Hagenberg, Austria.
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/
February 22, Social Fabrics: ART + MEDIA + INTERCONNECTIVITY, Dallas, Texas, USA.
www.socialfabrics.org
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