Comments on: Corpus 2.0 by Marcia Nolte

By: schneider

schneider — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:02:39 +0000

i can’t believe people on here are actually assuming that the designer thinks this is really whats going to happen to our bodies.

its a fun and interesting project, but it surely wasn’t meant to be a correct vision of the future!

By: Sara Makki

Sara Makki — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:08:03 +0000

This is verry intersting and verry effective visually!! Great concept. two BIG thumbs up !

By: Teodora

Teodora — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:42:18 +0000

This is not about what the modern things can do to you (with your body) it is an analogy with the way we think about our little or big prosthesis and how we surround ourselves by them, creating our “next nature”. An analogy with an adapted transformation of man’s thought and sensitivity.

By: mary de groot

mary de groot — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:27:26 +0000

I THINK IS A PERFECT PROJECT BECAUSE HERE YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE MODERN THINGS CAN DO WITH YOUR BODY. YOUR PRESENTATION IN EINDHOVEN WAS FANTASTIC. GO ON WITH YOUR THINGS.

By: sara

sara — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:14:23 +0000

awesome work…
true facts!!

By: Dkrtemp

Dkrtemp — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:35:16 +0000

WOW!!!!, well this is a good approach for evolution, but technology changes a lot, this is never going to happen.

By: B B

B B — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:55:23 +0000

See, there’s this entire discipline that deals with how to design products that suit the needs of humans, not vice versa. They call it “ergonomics.” You might want to look into it. It’s kind of a big deal. I mean, not that your ideas aren’t intriguing, just that they’re kind of…obsolete.

Cool Photoshops, though.

By: moir.deox

moir.deox — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:18:49 +0000

That shoulder looks nasty

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:11:56 +0000

Instead of a hole in the lips, smokers should evolve a hole in the front of their necks to accommodate the eventual tracheostomy breathing device they will need.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:57:01 +0000

Weird and monstrous.
The idea of the post-human, the cyber-modification of the body is really rooted in the 90’s.
While Body scarification, piercing and other pre-body-plugins for digital mutants or Primitive civilizations are a long time fascination amongst anthropologists. (tatoos, extending body parts, or reducing them) For this you have the very interesting http://www.bod-mod.com/index.php

I still think that the concepts shown in this projects are somehow shallow, considering its materialistic approach, and its clumsy concepts.
What it shows is the reversal of the usual dialog between the machine (the design) and the body (user).
What it implies is that the body becomes a product, a consumption material, a merchandising product. Like anything material, it implies its obsolescence, then its destruction in the sake of vanity and branding. While the designed object becomes a sacred instrument, sanctified by the body and its adaptation.
This is the ultimate fetishism of commodity.
People as lampshed, or soap, people’s identity and political opinions dictated by branding. That sounds so post-human, so 90’s !!! and so 1940’s…

I find it clumsy because it sounds more like a cultural approach than an evolutionary approach. Evolution takes millennium, modifying the body has always been around, in almost all civilization.
If I was Marcia Nolte, I would talk about cultural body modifications, it would be more appropriate, and maybe more interesting, and realistic. it would as well enrich here concept.