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The Body Research Machine

Daniel García Andújar: The Body Research Machine, 1997 (Screenshot)

Daniel García Andújar: The Body Research Machine, ,
Multimedia-Projekt (Screenshot)

Installation

Coproduction: Hartware MedienKunstVerein
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Since 2000, a modified version has been part of the permanent collection of the Deutschen Arbeitsschutzausstellung,
Shortcuts. Anschlüsse an den Körper, 1997

“‘THE BODY RESEARCH MACHINE©' uses innovative technologies based on advanced biometrics in order to record complex data related to the human body. The machine transmits through the body ultrasound waves which then split up into phase data. While doing so, the machine scans every section of the body for interesting information, transferring all input signals to a special computer .
Specially developed by TECHNOLOGIES TO THE PEOPLE©, the database system imitates the structure of various atom models and is able to reconstruct, atom for atom, individual amino-acid structures. data and other information are stored in our central database. The collected data can ultimately be compared with the DNA strings saved in a GenBank.
TECHNOLOGIES TO THE PEOPLE© supports the ‘Model Ethical Protocol for Collecting DNA Samples'. We will permit neither the patenting of our DNA strings nor the sale of genetic material. In contrast, we guarantee individual control over personal information. Once the ‘Human Project' has fulfilled the mission of transcribing the code which controls the creation and development of human life, it will place this code on the market and thus make it generally available. That is what we hope. After the DNS chains of the human being are wholly decrypted and interpreted, we will be in a position to use the findings for our own purposes. We will re-invent our own selves and alter the course of evolution.”

Daniel García Andújar

Daniel García Andújar: The Body Research Machine, 1997, Multimedia-Projekt (screenshot)

Daniel García Andújar: The Body Research Machine, 1997,
Multimedia-Projekt (Screenshot)

Daniel García Andújar: The Body Research Machine, 1997, Installationsansicht (Photo: Sascha Dressler)

Daniel García Andújar: The Body Research Machine, 1997,
Installationsansicht (Photo: Sascha Dressler)

An artist who uses irony and presentation strategies that employ new communication technologies to question the democratic and equalitarian promises of these media and criticise the desire for control lying behind their apparent transparency. Based on the confirmation that new information and communication technologies are transforming our everyday life, Daniel G. Andújar created a fiction (Technologies To The People, 1996) designed to make us increase our awareness of the reality around us and of the deception in promises of free choice that are converted, irremissibly, into new forms of control and inequality. A long-time member of i rational.org (international reference point for art on the web) and founder of Technologies To The People , he is the creator of numerous projects on the Internet such as art-net-dortmund, e-barcelona.org, e-valencia.org, e-seoul.org, e-wac.org, e-sevilla.org, Materiales de artista, etc. He has directed numerous workshops for artists and social collectives in different countries.

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