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Modular Bones™
2020, Living Strategy, Wearable
Modular Bones™ is dealing with life in non-habitable places in two parts: A living strategy towards the post-anthropocene and the Kun, a prosthetic designed to preserve human
intelligence.
Modular Bones™, living strategy is an
intelligent self-developing system that
emerges as a number of practices and
symbiotic methods.
AI and self-developing
systems that support living, could potentially
define an overlapping living system calling for
self-sufficiency.
This could expand in a
broader sense as a mode of unified living
between species (Haraway 2016)
Scientific curation—Ioannis Papadoniou
Sound design—NatCase
Photo © Yiouli Tsatsopoulou
In the post-Anthropocene, Kun enables the exploration of environments that are ‘yet to be experienced,’ transmitting signals not only to itself and its wearer, but also to the cloud (AI). Kun is semi-autonomous—it can self-regulate its functions, yet interaction with its wearer remains essential, as it relies on nutritional supplementation from the user.
This dependency defines the boundaries and limits the autonomy of its operations.
Kun functions as a prosthetic component, composed of bone, tissue, and embedded sensors. It incorporates foreign polymer structures and is capable of executing both haptic and biomechanical tasks. Its functionality dynamically adapts to the user's locomotory needs, modifying its properties accordingly. It attaches directly to the body-to-be-augmented, serving as an integrated and functional body part.
Kun exists as a system composed of the wearer, the wearable, and the continuous exchange of information between other Kun devices and their users—together forming a super-organism (Wilson, 2012).
This dependency defines the boundaries and limits the autonomy of its operations.
Kun functions as a prosthetic component, composed of bone, tissue, and embedded sensors. It incorporates foreign polymer structures and is capable of executing both haptic and biomechanical tasks. Its functionality dynamically adapts to the user's locomotory needs, modifying its properties accordingly. It attaches directly to the body-to-be-augmented, serving as an integrated and functional body part.
Kun exists as a system composed of the wearer, the wearable, and the continuous exchange of information between other Kun devices and their users—together forming a super-organism (Wilson, 2012).