Totematons

Artisan Open Source Hardware

(OSHW) & Animism

Denisa Kera, Jan Rod, Charith Fernando

Open Source Hardware (OSHW)

FabLabs, Hackerspaces, DIYbio lab Prague, Singapore, Kathmandu, Tokyo, Yogykarta, San Francisco… lately Shenzhen

hacking food truck in fablab, yogyakarta for Molecular Cuisine Nomadic Science Lab

Research in Developing countries

DIYbio lab OSHW equipment

Connecting DIYbio hackerspaces: Biocurious, Hackteria, Lifepatch

GeekNomads.com

scanned my brain in London performed “brain uploading” over Dropbox & FB

used the fMRI and SPNs data in a workshop on data liberation for citizen science in Prague Hackerspace

Design Fiction Open Science, Data activism Connecting universities & hackerspaces Open Bio Data Markets Clouds for Citizen science projects etc.

recreated Hieronymus Bosch garden with spherification in Fribourg/ Swiss hackerspace use microfludics to meditation upon the meaning of spheres in western cosmology

Lab and Science “archeology” and history

Alchemy & DIYbio

Tinkering in the 16.century

…preparing an puppetry opera with microfluidics in Prague in May 2013

How to connect Design & Philosophy?

From “no theory without a model”

to “no theory without a prototype”

Convergence of Research & Community building community around prototypes

Grassroots Innovation & Research outside of Academia & Industry walls

Research in Developing countries & Support of traditional, indigenous knowledge

Resilient model for policy & public participation in science

OSHW is an opportunity for…

Safecast from March 2011 - 2013

From 0 to 5 mil points Japanese government: 30 000 data points

iGeigie = iPhone Radiation Dock Portable Geiger counter that docks with an iPhone. By calling your iPhone, you can listen to the familiar clicks that tell just how much radiation is present in a particular area.

TOTEMATONS.org Totem Hardware for Cosmopolitical Tribes

Totem & automaton? Connect old & new artisan techniques Dispersing evil spirits & geopolitical fears Emblem for a cosmopolitical clan Defining new lineages and tribes Exploring non-human ancestry Tool of new techno-totemic myths

Totematon is….

Totem hardware is a prototype, which serves as an emblem for a cosmopolitical clan, defining new lineages and tribes, and reminding us of our common non-human ancestry by creating powerful new techno-totemic myths.

Prototype 1: Radiation chimes

Traditional windchimes 4 Geiger Tubes Custom made PCB Tribute to traditional artisan techniques, indigenous design and OSHW

Myochin Hibashi Fuurin Tong Wind Chimes

Traditional crafts typical of Himeji – sound Myochin’ s iron chopsticks used for sound checking of Sony products Family business: Munemichi Myochin, family of armor-makers since Heian Period (A.D.794-1185)

“Because I am the only one who can do this. No one else can produce these sounds. That’ s why I feel I cannot be defeated …”

Myochin Hibashi 明珍火箸

Chimes, Tongs & Sensors

Windchimes – the first sensor technology

Rituals of protection & taming our fears

Enhance old rituals with new artisan hardware?

Ritual object helping us to deal with our fears from radiation?

Geopolitical Tribute to Open Source Hardware (OSHW)

Traditional artisan chimes from Himeji 姫路市 Geiger tubes used after Chernobyl PCB made by Tokyo based InMojo.com team OSHW components from Shenzhen market

Global tinkering culture based on OSHW Explorations of hybrid and cosmopolitan futures OSHW - platform for global, technological and political dialogue supporting unique inter-cultural design and exchanges between traditional and new artisan techniques and aesthetic values

(Ar)Duino Elegies Geopolitical Tribute to OSHW

Does the cosmic space, we dissolve into, taste of us then?

Duino Elegies, Rilke

Manifest of Totematons

With this prototype we are exploring the concept of totem hardware, of technologies dispersing evil spirits and geopolitical fears, which can create new collective identities based on hacker and maker cultures refusing present geopolitical divisions and working on radical new visions.

Technology & Animism

Embrace tools supporting techno-animism Enhance sensitivity to our connection with the elements and the ecosystems Create for cosmopolitical & cosmopolitan future We need artifacts, which enable us to taste the universe and experience what is left after a catastrophe….

Totem hardware Workshops

InMojo.com Jan Rod, Charith Fernando Karkhana.asia.... Workshop in October 2013 Sakar Pudasaini HONF Yogyakarta New Media Art Laboratory & HONFablab… Workshop this weekend April 2013 Brmlab.cz, Prague… Workshop May 2013 Xin Che Jian Shanghai….. Workshop in Shenzhen July 2013 Silvia Lindtner, David Li