Earworm Assault as collective Devices
Collective Fur
Weapons of mass distraction for a modern times guerrilla
"The subversive and funny approach of games by Fur can also be found in their series named "Earworm Assault Devices" (infectious melody assault weapons), guerrilla toys that spread haunting melodies".
Digital by Design
Works: sound art
Date: 2006
Producer:
Partner:
Digitalarti
SEWP-12.1
Edition: 5 copies
Size: 580 x 300 x 95 mm in a wooden box 700 x 400 x 150 mm
EWM-12
Edition: 10 copies
Size: 160 x 31 mm in a wooden box 360 x 250 x 100 mm
Information: www.digitalarti.com/blog/catalogue/EAD
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Semiautomatic Earworm Pistol 12 "(SEWP-12.1): activate the music…
This semi-automatic pistol is your weapon to fight the nagging tunes, songs and advertising jingle, spilled daily by radio, television and mobile phones. Choose your own infectious melodies and propagate them wherever you want, by pulling the trigger. Its small size and light weight mean it can be used in any circumstance and at an optimum speed. The tune you have selected is saved directly in the device through an inbuilt microphone. It is heard when pulling the trigger. Its propagation is made accurate by the barrel of the gun in the shape of a megaphone.
Earworm Mine 12 "(EWM-12): the explosive revolt
The mines record the melody of your choice which can contaminate a whole environment.
Their small size mean that you can hide them anywhere. An ultra-sensitive vibration sensor reacts to the slightest movement: infection can begin. The mines are defused simply by turning the lid.
The works of Fur are being shown throughout the world:
> Computerpiele Museum, Berlin
> SORTIE 2010, Paris
> MoMa, New York
> MOCA, Shanghai
> Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
> Electrical Fantasista 2006, Yokohama
> Festival Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal
> Media Art Festival, Hong Kong
> Rohkunstbau XII, Berlin
> Victoria and Albert Museum, London
> Moderna Museet, Stockholm
> Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
> Ars Electronica, Linz
Fur: non-virtuels games designers
Tilman Reiff and Volker Morawe are 2 media artists from Cologne. Former students at the Academy of the Arts, in 2001 they created the //////////fur//// collective, art entertainment interfaces. The use of Mechatronics (synergy of mechanics, electronics and computer science) enabled them, through playful installations, to shift from the predominance of computer programming by injecting materiality into virtuality. Their specific video games, animating automata or actively involving the players well before the Wii, with their very controversial Painstation that inflicts electric shocks, explore new interfaces of entertainment. Man really is at one with the machine!
Photo © D.R.
