Monday, December 28, 2009

Men Waxing Orange County For Gay

FLEEEESH MAKE! ! ! THE MICHAEL JACKSON



Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) explored the possible merger of the machine and the body in an atmosphere of technological terror. At the end of the film , Max Renn, the protagonist commits suicide by changing your body corrupt the New Flesh on the other side of the TV. His hand has been merged with the gun and the skin looks similar to an octopus. And one can not help but wonder what would happen if this became a reality.

bioengineering advances now allow development of small portions of live skin from stem cells. This is especially useful in the treatment of injuries and burns. It is expected that future this technology will continue to develop y. .. What if we could produce raw industrial level? Could it be this efficient construction material? Imagine that we can manufacture in large and kept alive by a sophisticated electronic system to digital. And we started using it as a division of spaces. Then arrive at the concept of "skin" in the literal sense of the term.

Marcos Cruz is an architect who lives and works in London. Marjan Colletti goes alongside the Unit 20 at the Bartlett UCL. Marcos Cruz has already imagined all the above and assumes that this living skin with a digital system that keeps it there.
His research explores the relationship between human skin and architecture. In his project "Hyperdermis" users inhabit a living architectural skin. This is a biological tissue with service facilities. The entire project takes the aesthetic of the flesh. Construct a hypothetical scenario of living walls, surfaces pierced by pores, scars, bulging, or reactive tentacles embedded cameras to which the user comes crawling through holes extensibles.Su intention is to reverse the discourse of traditional architecture showing the film thinking of the empty space and use the wall-meat as a central tool of the project.

Cruz counters that the relationship of humans with their own bodies are changing and cosmetic surgery is just the beginning. A growing number of techniques allow anatomical and sensory improvements. Confidence that our body will become a "body technology" capable of interacting with the environment changing and responsible manner is growing over time. This increasingly possible merger of technology with the flesh leads him to think of living spaces that can be integrated as part of this "body technology" and connect their "bodies" electronic nerve endings in it.




Photo: Fleshscape Fleshscape 1 and 2, Yu-Ying Hu



Audio: