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Categories: Performance | Virtual Reality
Keywords: Interaction | Perception | Body
Relevant passages:
Margaret Morse «Sunshine and Shroud: Cyborg Bodies and the Collective and Personal Self»
Works by Eddo Stern:
Check as well:
Annemarie Schleiner
Lynn Hershman David Rokeby David Rokeby «Taken» David Rokeby «The Giver of Names»
Eddo Stern
«Tekken Torture Tournament»
During the «Tekken Torture Tournament» performance, 32 willing participants received bracing but non-lethal electrical shocks in correspondence to the injuries sustained by their onscreen avatars. Players wore shocking arm straps wired through a hardware/software hack of the world’s most popular Playstation fighting game TEKKEN.
