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Personal Statements
Perfect Body
"PERFECT BODY" is a product that goes just one or two steps further than our every day life now referring to social tendencies concerning the obsession of beauty and the availability of body (and woman).
I guess – if "PERFECT BODY" as a product comes up on the market a lot of people (especially girls in their puberty) would buy and use it. As they than loose their own body it would change their personal life – and with this a whole generation, influencing the society itself.
If we can buy body parts (things) that adhere in a minute on my own body, that become my own body - where is than the boarder between subject and object?
How will this change subjectivity and the meaning of individualism?
Mila Burghardt
AphrodiTec
Its the old story of controlling love – the own feelings and the feelings of the others. Fall in love and be loved – without any doubts! It is the deliverance of the freedom and a relieve of uncertainness and pain. But for which price?
AphrodiTec points on the actual discussion and central question of the contemporary individual: the right measure of self-determination and heteronomy.
Mila Burghardt
Balcony Menu
What is 'bio'? A lot of people prefer products that are labeled with 'bio' – without asking themselves how 'bio' it really is. Is the 'bio' tomato that grew 800 kilometers away really 'better' than the 'normal' tomato that grew in the next village?
Balcony Menu takes this paradox to extremes. Food that I nurture on my balcony has to be 100 % 'bio', it makes a good conscious and a feeling of safety – but which process has the plant gone through until it was in this state to sustain various fruits and vegetables?
And still – wouldn't it be great to have that product at home?
This product doesn't aim a judgement but wants to stimulate the awareness of what we eat and our perception of 'bio'.
Mila Burghardt
BactoSafe
People are in fear about their properties, their families, their lives. Media and some politicians stoke those fears and produce an atmosphere that brings people to switch the priorities from 'freedom' to 'safety'. And this might have a high price. How do we want to punish people for misbehavior, what would come up if everyone has the possibility to use bacteria and virus for tracing e.g. intruders. Which other secondary effect would an area-wide DNA database have, for example on the employment market. How far are we really willing to go to protect our 'safety'?
Mila Burghardt
Babys Best Night Care
Its perfect, its helping, its useful. And its a cruel thing to use, if we focus for example on "harmonizing substance that guides your child to pleasant and deep dreams". It confronts us with the topic of egoism, covered with the cloak of care and broaches with this the issue of advertising products in general.
Mila Burghardt
Sasha
Synbio products are living and still machines. "Sasha" picks the 'technology as a sociotechnical system' and communication in general out as the central themes. Using the example of a learning sex toy this product deals with the interaction of human and machine, but at the same time picking up our way of (not) communicating from human to human.
Mila Burghardt
