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Happiest of birthdays to the craziest pyromaniac in the whole Slenderman mansion ✨✨✨!!! To celebrate his birthday, Hoodie decided to take him on a walk through the forest to find him a new friend. It took a while but in the end he found a raccoon friend and named him Bandit. After that we ate cake and we watched the soap opera that my mutual friend let us borrow, he definitely cried 🤣.

This work, created for a final project for a course on Data Driven Art (taught by James Coupe, University of Washington) creates a mirror for the viewer. They type in a number of tags about themselves into a program, information like their gender identity, nationality, age, sexuality, looks, personality, etc. and are returned with truths scraped from the depths of the pornhub comments section of a video starring someone who fits into similar tags. The comments can be seen as a corrupted, manipulated reflection of the viewer, the perverse thoughts placed on to them by voices on the internet.

Each comment is retrieved in real time, and are unique to the individual through a divinatory process promising to bring more questions than answers.

Hairy Situation 1

Audio from Hairy Situation 1, generated from hair being brushed, and the electronic glitched noises of an imperfect machine.

Hairy Situation

A cybernetic interface for hair

Generate soundscapes from human hair, and perform femininity.

Made with love by Kathrine Hardman,

"a hairy situation 2: electric boogaloo" a work of multimedia hair art Feel free to try this with your own hair, or that of someone you know and love!(with their permission, of course ;) )

Enjoy y'all's hair!

love, -kat

[email protected] 720-384-6143

Some images of hairy situation 2.

Hairy Situation 2 Composed with hair and metal.

Another hair based interface for sound generation. This version threads the interface into a braid, and allows it to be played like any other string instrument. Stroke out tremolos by anxiously stroking your braid. Be careful not to play high notes for too long, improper technique can set you on fire (literally). Tangles and knots make for interesting, if unintended sounds