The Tool I Want (2017)
During a one-month residency at Amit’s Hybrid Craft Lab in 2017, I started to develop an idea for the tool I want. A tool that will help me blur the boundaries between indoors and outdoors, between materials of different origins…
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157679342488108
Concepts
– becoming with the machine
– wearable tool
– making music
– performing process
Related Work
A Wearable Studio Practice
Make Tools, Not Parts
ohmHooks, Tools for E-Textile Techniques…
>> http://www.plusea.at/?category_name=make-tools-not-parts
Tools We Want
IN PROGRESS:
Arduino + Tool, Tool + Jewelry
ATtiny Programming Jewelry Collection
Aesthetics…
using cnc machine to work with specific materials, around material properties, not uniform “raw” materials….
Perforated circuitboard – milling away copper traces and around and in between holes…
ATtiny boards >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=4445
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7324/9406746963_1bdbce1dc9.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/9499578459_9c413ae039_m.jpg
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ATtiny programming shield >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=3996
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8492195179_e657627a55.jpg
Dave’s ATtiny programming adaptor
>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/mellis/albums/72157625027498777
Tiny AVR programmer >> https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11801
https://cdn.sparkfun.com//assets/parts/8/1/1/1/11801-01.jpg
ATtiny segment display >> http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=3800
Becoming with the Machine…
Dimitri’s tattooed score
Finger Knitting
Fingernail Strippers
Fingertip Measurements
Being the Machine: Reconfiguring Agency and Control in Hybrid Fabrication by Laura Devendorf and Kimiko Ryokai
>> https://bid.berkeley.edu/files/papers/15_CHI_BeingTheMachine.pdf
>> http://artfordorks.com/2014/06/being-the-machine/
Organs without Bodies – Gilles Deleuze “Becoming-machine” by Slavoj Zizek
>> http://www.lacan.com/zizsalsation.html
“The machinic prothesis will be less an external apparatus with whom we interact, and more part of our direct self-experience as a living organism – thus decentering us from within.”
“…Dennett’s insistence on how tools – externalized intelligence on which humans rely – are an inherent part of human identity (it is meaningless to imagine a human being as a biological entity WITHOUT the complex network of his/her tools…”
Wearable Tools
“Jewelry” Tools
3D printed breadboard pendant by Felix Klee:
>> https://vine.co/v/iQiPnZwh9KB
Chantlaine
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatelaine
Leather Tailors Gauntlet
>> http://makezine.com/2014/09/19/leather-tailors-gauntlet/
Steampunk tool gauntlets and wearables
Rachel’s breadboard wristband
>> http://www.rachelfreire.com/news/2015/8/3/e-textile-summer-camp
Breadboard bracelet / pincushion breadboard
Tech gauntlet –> cyborg…
Tooling…
Irene’s Tooling >> http://www.ireneposch.net/tooling/
Pressure Probe
>> http://toolswewant.at/tools/software-tools/pressure-probe/
FreeD
metamoCrochet
>> http://ken-nakagaki.com/works/metamocrochet/
Comp*pass
>> http://ken-nakagaki.com/works/comppass/
m&t >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/plusea/albums/72157605562647889