a series of controversial dildonics by 23N!
made for Arse Elektronika 2008


Seismic Dildo, Sex Strike Dildo, Perpetual Erection Machine


Seismic Dildo



The Seismic Dildo is a conventional dildo that is turned on (vibrating) only in case of an earthquake somewhere in the world. The intensity of the vibrations of the dildo are determined by the magnitude of the earthquake. The duration of the vibrations is determined by the distance between the user and the epicenter of the earthquake.
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No earthquake, the dildo is turned off.
microcontroller
The microcontroller box
How it Works?

The Seismic Dildo is a conventional dildo(1) that is connected to a microcontroller (in this case an ATMEGA168 programmed through the Arduino IDE). The microcontroller is continuously reading(2) a feed of the recent earthquakes, obtained from the USGS, through a program written with Processing(3). Each time an earthquake occurs, the program sends information of distance and magnitude to the microcontroller that in turns controls the dildo.

The distance between the user and the epicentre of the earthquake is translated into the duration of the vibrations. The magnitude of the earthquake is translated into the intensity of the vibrations.


About the Seismic Dildo

The Seismic Dildo creates a tangible link between possibly dramatic events that are taking place somewhere in the world, represented by earthquakes, and the user, at the same instant she/he is experiencing sexual pleasure. While tragic events are continuously taking place somewhere in the world, the Seismic Dildo makes the user physically and sexually aware of this.

Another way to see the Seismic Dildo, that is more politically correct, is to see it as a way to make love with Earth itself, the dildo acting as the sexual organ of the Earth.

(1) Any dildo can be plugged to the microcontroller box as long as its power supply is compatible.
(2) The microcontroller box must always be connected (through USB) to the computer running the program.
(3) The computer running the program must be connected to the Internet.


An earthquake occured in Alaska, the dildo is turned on for 30s at a very low level of vibrations.
Media:
Movie (quicktime, 37.8Mo, 1:42)



Sex Strike Dildo

The Sex Strike Dildo is a conventional dildo that the user is able to use freely for one day only if she/he has met a given daily requirement. This requirement is that a given measure or rating of a given political or societal fact does not exceed a threshold set by the user. The threshold represents the user's tolerance on the considered political or societal fact.
How it Works?(1)

The Sex Strike Dildo is a conventional dildo(2) that is connected to a microcontroller (in this case an ATMEGA168 programmed through the Arduino IDE). Each day the user wants to use the dildo, she/he must run a program written with Processing(3). The program computes(4) a daily measure or rating(5), of a given political or societal fact and compares it to the threshold entered by the user.

If the daily measure exceeds the threshold, the dildo is locked and the user is unable to use it. If the daily measure is less than the the threshold, the dildo is unlocked and the user can use it freely for the day.

Your tolerance limit is 2 daily dead Iraqi civilians due to the war in Iraq. Today, 20 Iraqis civilians died. The dildo is locked until tomorrow.

You tolerate 50 daily dead Iraqi civilians. Today, 20 Iraqis civilians died. The dildo is unlocked, you can use it freely for the day.
About the Sex Strike Dildo

The Sex Strike Dildo is a way for the user to express his/her opinion relative to a given political or societal fact by eventually doing a sex strike. By setting the threshold, the user is expressing her/his tolerance limit to the considered fact before not allowing her/himself sexual gratification.

A working example of the Sex Strike Dildo has been completed with the measure being the daily body count of Iraqi civilians (obtained from Iraq Body Count). The user sets the amount of daily dead Iraqi civilians she/he tolerates before not allowing her/himself sexual gratification (see pictures).

(1) The Sex Strike Dildo uses the exactly same hardware than the Seismic Dildo. Only the software differs.
(2) Any dildo can be plugged to the microcontroller box as long as its power supply is compatible.
(3) The microcontroller box needs to be connected (through USB) to the computer only once a day, at the time the computer is running the program.
(4) The computer running the program must be connected to the Internet.

(5) Various measures can be used. For example, one can think of a measure related to Global Warming.

Media:
Movie (quicktime, 23.9Mo, 1:05)



Perpetual Erection Machine

Soon.

Links

Arse Elektronika
Opendildonics
Teledildonics (wikipedia entry)
About the series

Monochrom
Gizmodo
Fleshbot


last update: 13 June 2008