. Art

13.03.02 Chip in the body, body art post-telematics.
Five years after the clamor developed by Professor Eduardo Kac, who became insert a microchip in the ankle, during a live performance in Sao Paulo (Brazil), another artist decided to question the boundary between organic and inorganic process of updating the ancestral fears of the cyborg. The thirty-four Canadian Nancy Nisbet, in fact, was made ​​to implant a 'biochip' in the hands (more precisely, in the fleshy part between the thumb and index finger) in a veterinary clinic, although the law does not allow it in his own country, nor in United States. Starting from the consideration that the merger between man and machine will proceed whether we like it or not, its purpose is to better understand the dangers and benefits that it represents. The chip used emits a frequency of 134-kilohertz, which can be read by a scanner capable of decoding the ID of twelve alphanumeric digits. In projects of Nisbet is to modify the mouse of your computer incorporating us into a scanner that can monitor its use of the internet. In addition to this a webcam and a GPS trace his physical movements. The choice of the hands then it is not random, they are often used to trace our identity, in fingerprints, for example, and the point where they are implanted chip is described in the Bible as one in which will be attached to the 'mark of the Beast 'at the end of the world. Obviously the only misuse of the medium is a possible mandatory inoculation, and the artist wants to put public attention to questions of identity and control, taking possession of this technology consciously, discovering limitations and failures, and being able to decide which information is transmitted and used .