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Erkki Kurenniemi
Erkki Kurenniemi
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Experiments in Eternity: Erkki Kurenniemi
Lorenza Pignatti
Kurenniemi was looking for a new sensorium through technological instruments and fleshy excitements such as alcohol, drugs, sex, and combinations thereof. In his life, any boundary between science, music, physics, pornography, and technology was porous. Dimi-S (aka Sexophone or Love Machine, 1972) is a device that generates sounds through the skin contact of four performers who hold electrodes that generates bio-feedback. Each Sexophone session is unique, as the sound is generated by the electric conductivity of the players’ epidermises. The players are asked to follow some instructions to activate the machine, as in Fluxus or algorithmic art. Sexophone is an ironic forerunner of cybersex.
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 4, 2017
Category
Technology, Contemporary Art, Data & Information
Subjects
Artificial intelligence, Immortality, Consciousness & Cognition, Everyday Life