#michael allison

[bubbleb34r]

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[visixdes]

Knocking from Michael Allison on Vimeo.

I think Knocking is a super creative way to reach forth the uncanny. Powered by an arduino, this door knocks back at you. It reads the way you knock and repeats it. Not only does this mechanism allow for you to think of the way you knock, but it brings a sense of curiosity -- will this door always knock back the same way?

[legalizememes]

so virtual reality shamanism is a thing now

i really wanna know what it's like since it looks fun as fuck

[noahgentile]

"Michael Allison has constructed a religious rite around the virtual headset—a religious rite that involves having an oscillating fan blown in your face and chanting “I am become bit” [sic], no less. Know as Ecstatic Computation, this cybernetic baptism may sound a bit batshit, but the creator’s intent is to trigger a state of ecstasy, which is, according to his definition, a feeling of being outside yourself. Everything you see in the video is supposably based on research of shamanistic rituals, such as those that enlist “ritual drumming and chanting … meditating and… the aid of entheogenic substances like ayahuasca,” to quote Allison’s blog. "

(via Kill Screen)

[the-art-armory-blog]

Firewall, Aaron Sherwood and Michael Allison

[theabandonedparalian-blog]

[scopeofscale-gallery]

"Firewall." An interactive installation by Aaron Sherwood in collaboration with Michael Allison.