Body Technology Interfaces

“…Participatory installations that aim to bring critical awareness and consideration to the complex relationship between people and their technological artifacts.”

Leigh Under a Skylight

Performance artist and transvestite Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) was one of Freud’s favourite models. In the photo below Leigh is posing for the 1994 “Leigh Under a Skylight”. Click image for more.

For the Love of God

The skull is covered with 8,601 flawless diamonds and a £50 million price tag. In the picture, the maker Damien Hirst an the skull.

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Hanging Heart

Jeff Koons’ stainless steel Hanging Heart brought a record $23.6 million at Sotheby’s evening sale of 14 November 2007 in New York. The previous record for a living artist was Damien Hirst’s Lullaby Spring which sold for $19.5 million at Sotheby’s in London in June. Hirst’s piece was a stainless steel cabinet containing 6,136 handcrafted and painted pills.

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Benefits Supervisor Sleeping

At a Christie’s auction in Manhattan, Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which depicts a 20 stone, Jobcentre worker stretched over a tatty sofa, fetched $33.64m, far exceeding the previous record set in November by Jeff Koons’ Hanging Heart sculpture that sold for $23.6 million.

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Borachos

Techno Stilettos

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Household bugs

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Museum of unworkable devices

The museum of unworkable devices is a celebration of fascinating devices that don’t work, like M. C. Escher’s coloured perpetuum mobile Waterfall shown below.

Dance clock

Live dance clock! Click image!