A COMPENDIUM OF RESEARCH expanding and contracting
Project: The Voyager update project

WHERE WE STARTED

We started out wanting to make a suit that communicated the SENSATION of being human — WE CALLED THIS THE HUMAN SUIT.

WE DID RESEARCH ON THE VARIETIES OF HUMAN SUITS

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VEHICLES
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the eco-friendly Toyota RiN concept car features heated ergonomic seats, an oxygen level regulator, a spot humidifier, a “mood training” steering control system that monitors the driver’s psychological state, and greenish glass that protects against UV and infrared light while enhancing the natural beauty of the view outside.

PUYO’s “gel body” made from soft materials is designed to enhance safety, while embedded headlights and other illumination shine through the soft, translucent skin in the hope of fostering a more tender relationship between human and machine.

COULD WE APPEAL TO A CAR COMPANY LIKE TOYOTA OR HONDA?

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FASHION
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SPACE SUITS (to keep our humanity inside)

not really a human suit


A project by Final Home clothing retailers

Where Final Home clothing retailers began

The coat comes in three basic colors: "orange" to remind of one's existence; "khaki" to blend in with the forest and "black" to assimilate in the city. Directions for use are written on the bag in which the coat comes.

FINAL HOME welcomes suggestions from customers and ideas for new projects.

COULD WE APPEAL TO A CLOTHING COMPANY LIKE FINAL HOME?


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DEVICES
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Teleglass T4-N connects to any NTSC-capable video player (including iPods) and delivers images directly to the eye via a pair of tiny monitors tucked away behind the lenses. The 640 x 480 screen resolution at close proximity simulates the effect of watching a 45-inch screen from 2 meters (6 feet) away, and each monitor can be focused and adjusted for an optimal picture that reduces eye strain. Audio is delivered through a pair of frame-mounted earphones.


"The Virtual Relations Mask [ by Vito Acconci ]

has a penis for nose, vagina for mouth, one television facing in at the eyes, and a surveillance camera on the top of the mask that mechanically rotates, up and down. So if you're wearing the mask and someone is fucking you from the outside, you can see who's fucking you by means of the camera, and if you don't like who's fucking you, there's a whistle on the inside you can blow.

Optical Handlers by Eric Siu

The “Optical Handlers” is not a device that tries to simulate the vision of other species, but to explore mobile vision enhanced by inventive apparatus that helps us to discover our “visually defined” sense of space. The “Optical Handlers” reveal and re-direct our seeing habit: a normal human being does not have the ability to dislocate our eyeballs to widen our way of seeing, nor to exteriorize or mobilize our vision freely. In other words, our sense of space has always been dictated by our embodied vision.

CAN WE APPEAL TO AN ELECTRONICS COMPANY // A TOY COMPANY

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HUMANITY TRANSMITTED AS A DIGITAL SIGNAL
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Ann Druyan's experiment



Digital Urn

CAN WE APPEAL TO LACIE DISK OR HITACHI?

OUR STUDIES

We re-enacted a set of psychological studies to get in touch with OUR VERY OWN HUMAN SUITS.


Constructed from verbal instructions, setting up scenarios with "rubber hands," poking devices, human practitioners. We concluded from our studies an interest in the feeling



HUMAN SUIT AS A METAPHOR
humanity is defied by it's interest in moving beyond itself by creating various extensions of the human body and mind. These are evolutionary modifications of the human form, and it's our interest in doing so that sets us apart from other members of the animal kingdom.

GETTING BACK IN TOUCH WITH HUMAN SUIT #1
This impulse has been key to our brand since the beginning, when we identified it as a defining feature of humanity. Calling attention to this impulse through sensational experience has also been a part of the agenda all along. Though our experiments we drew attention to a particular sensation that we're now trying to contain within a "device" and connect to a brand. This sensation can be defied as awe. The feeling that everything you thought you knew is wrong is key to the human attempts to understand itself and it's place in the world. The human suit is a way for humans to get in touch with their inner aliens.

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