http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/09/ats_20100914.mp3
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/tattooing-and-polynesian-identity/4203566
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http://www.mursi.org/pdf/latosky.pdf
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http://study.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/Ch06_Body%20Art.pdf
TXT skin
- Our skin mediates the most important transactions of our lives – skin is our biology our sensory experience, our information gathering and our relationship with others.
- Skin safe guards our internal organs, protects us from physical, chemical and microbial.
- Not an impervious barrier but a selectively permeable sheath. – A watchful sentinel – letting some things in and others out.
- Is also home to hundreds of microorganisms.
- Skin is a defensive shield – a gatekeeper and a personal zoo!
- Skin is the interface through which we touch one another and sense much of our environment.
- Apart from providing a boundary layer – skin has taken on the roles of social canvas – reflecting age, ancestry, health, and cultural identity.
- Decorations placed on our skin are deliberate forms of advertising.
- Adornment of the skin is one of the last frontiers of individuality and personal adventure.
- We associate our skin with the essence of our being.
- The word Skin can be used to express surprise or fear.
- A body with no skin is stripped of identity and personality.
Human skin is a surface for decoration - not just a passive covering that betrays our age or physiological state – potentially an ever-changing personal tapestry that tell the world who we are and what we want to be.
People in all known cultures modify their skin in some way - using deliberate markings and manipulation to convey information.
Thinking about how we communicate and the many different ways of communicating I started to explore ways of branding the skin with codes, reflecting on historic methods of communicating via our skin but giving a more contemporary twist.
I started looking at code and ways of hacking code into the scoby - but on a domestic biohacker budget so a call to Facebook seemed appropriate - asking for TXT words:
So far the work I have been doing has been on human forms – but what about communication and linking this back to body modification – looking beyond tattoos and scarification – looking at combining scarification with Txting and creating skin tags.
So I put the call out on facebook and asked for peoples favourite TXT talk and made clay moulds with the aim of drying scoby in these and then having txt skin tags.
So I put the call out on facebook and asked for peoples favourite TXT talk and made clay moulds with the aim of drying scoby in these and then having txt skin tags.
‘’Texts and Textiles’’ : Finding Manuscripts in Unusual Places
by Nora Wilkinson, Harvard University June 6, 2014
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/2014/06/06/texts-and-textiles-finding-manuscripts-in-unusual-places/#.VcR9aKiL7mN.twitter
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/2014/06/06/texts-and-textiles-finding-manuscripts-in-unusual-places/#.VcR9aKiL7mN.twitter