Körper im elektronischen Raum: Modelle für Menschen und interaktive Systeme

In contact with media technology the human body is often being dismissed as hardware out of date – especially if merely thought and talked or written about. Concretely, with all the sensory channels employed, the body proves to be a diversely applicable interface and still a fully compatible interactive medium that can communicate with the machine itself as well as with other (human or at least humanoid) bodies within technical environments in a complex way. Computers and the Internet are not only instruments and conductors but increasingly also communicative partners, whose ways of information processing should be conceived in association with (inter)personal communication patterns. How are the multimodal affinities of “new” media and the “good old” body to be described and designed within the electronic interactions of art, technology and science? Beyond traditional hierarchies and unnecessary reductions the project attempts to elicit the seminal modalities of (re)production as well as perception that the human