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Nowadays, it is possible to meet people unable to experience this
world through their own emotions. Although it is emotions that convey
personality, for most people the expression of emotion is deemed
inappropriate. The persons that outwardly shows they emotions is
often undermined in society due to others seeing them as over-the-top,
ridiculous, pathetic, silly, or pitiful. If we learn to master our
emotions, it follows that there will eventually be more and more
people lacking in them. That is the reason why I became development
designer for the Panasonic Company. I offered the company collaboration
in the development of a special techno-prosthesis. It was intended
that this should become a spare storage space for emotions that
could then be utilised by someone who felt that their own emotions
had degenerated so much that they were having problems with sufficiently
experiencing life. The machine itself looks like a Walkman with
headphones, the playing of which is not directed into the wearer’s
ear but actually transmitted outwards from the head. The memory
of the chip card of the SD Audio layer holds a vast number of audio
recordings of authentic human
emotions. When the owner wishes to express therself through acoustic
emotions but feels physically unable, the machine would give them
the opportunity to find an appropriate emotion on the display of
the SD Audio Player - whining, hysterical quarrelling, or chaotic
giggling.
Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Jiri Svestka,
Prague; Lara Vinci, Paris; Tent, Rotterdam; 2001; MAMA, Rotterdam;
Kraljevic, Zagreb; 2000: POST, Los Angeles; 1999: City Gallery,
Prague.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Balkan Consulat,
<rotor>, Graz, Austria; 2002: Fluxus und die folgen, Wiesbaden,
Germany; 2001: Triennial of Smallscale, Fellbach; 2000: Bohemian
Birds, Kunst Haus, Dresden; All You Need Is Love, The Centre of
Art - Laznia, Gdansk, Poland; 1999: After the Wall, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm; Fauna, Gallery of Contemporary Art Zacheta, Warsaw; Rondo,
Ludwig Museum, Budapest.
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