 Some private shout-outs. In the next talk, the next talk will be about access to bodies. Bodies are political. There are a lot of demands to Congress to strive for more diversity. And this talk, I guess, is one of those talks, one of those calls. We have a translation into English. streaming.c3lingo.org Nadja will talk about why body enhancement isn't just to improve the body but also possibly fun. Have fun with that. Hi. And you're listening to the translation of this talk and you're listening to Zeba Liz and... Philipp. I am Nadja, says the speaker, and the talk is Access to Bodies, a post-human guideline for technological and physical applications. I'm going to talk to you about various insights and views on the body and accesses that should take a few minutes. And then there will be lots of examples about my work. I will not try to follow a stringent logical narrative and there will be inserts on the way from the one-year-old jewellery project. Not quite. It's about where is that cost one-year-old being affixed to a body. I am an artist and I studied jewellery, which is an artistic medium too. There are two places in Germany where you can study that in Halle-Saale, close to Leipzig and in Munich. And I've always asked myself, well, jewellery, what does that actually mean? There is a theory that clothing only came after jewellery or to provide place to affix it to. And ultimately, jewellery as a description of the body, we wear rings because we have fingers, we are wearing bracelets, we are wearing chains because we have a neck. And the question is, what actually is the body? And the body is a situation that keeps changing and depends on social and social constructs. And, of course, technology as well changes the body and extends it and is invasive. And the body in the digital world, of course, that's where we spend a lot of time these days. In the digital world, the body more or less dissolves. We don't really need the body there, but there still is that idea of the body. It lives on in that space. We have avatars and without the body we cannot think. But the solution of the body feeds back into our analogue consciousness and changes our relationship to the body. This picture is a Chanel fashion show where the spring and summer trends 2017 were presented. And these, of course, are then shown in the year 2016. This took place in Paris. And this is the catwalk. You can see the service in the background and the models in the foreground that still wear the same kind of Chanel fashion, which they have done for 50 years. But the models look very different. Or perhaps they are, well, they are androids. So this is about the human that is subjected to design and change chain copy JPEG, one-year jewelry ring. You know all these classic life-logging pictures where technology is worn very close to the body and becomes a piece of jewelry to record the entire life, more or less. These days you will have smartphones and keep posting on Facebook or Instagram and documenting our life or logging it. And about all these occupations, I came across Cyborg's association, a Berlin association that deals critically with that Cyborg topic or deals with it. We are different protagonists, theorists, intellectuals, software engineers. And I have an artistic position in that field. And that is, for example, also about medical applications using open software, giving access to the body. For example, you wear an implant, you keep having to go to the hospital and the software has to be updated, but you yourself do not have that access or open Bluetooth interfaces in the body. So that Cyborg idea, of course, is nothing new. Face makers have been around since the 50s or 60s, not the 1950s or the 60s. And pills, well, ibuprofen is a very popular painkiller. I guess it was five years ago that I was in Leipzig at the trade fair, and the largest orthopedic trade fair in the world takes place in Leipzig. And there's this huge parkour by Otto Bock where all these prosthetics are displayed. And there is this pool where every half hour someone goes in and shows that their prosthetics are waterproof. And it's an almost zoo-like situation where everyone's taking pictures, the classical Cyborg idea. They have prosthetics and replace parts of the body and try to improve it that way. One euro jewelry bracelet. Now, these are examples from the beauty industry, which, of course, also works with innovation and technology a lot. They have the newest technology all the time, stem cells, advanced technology, DNA, retinal infrared technology. You surely know pictures like this, as well as this beauty technology advertisements for a face cream. And you don't quite know if this is a VR advertisement or what is it. So you need technology to increase your stance, improve your stance, and technology is being used to communicate the purity of nature, come back to that original position. This is Robocop, which, of course, which I'm sure you all know, and the top of the cyborgs, I suppose, and this woman is getting herself, getting on some sun lotion. And as soon as the sun lotion leaves this whitish kind of veil, that is a Titan prism filter that covers the skin. So what I'm getting at, this suits that the Robocop wears exists, has been around for a long time, just in a different form and almost transparent, you don't see it. One euro jewelry neck chain or whatever. And this is the lipstick from the 50s. The beauty product for the woman at the time since the 50s and 1950s, everyone had to have lipstick. And the Revlon brothers then invented nail varnish as well. And the history of nail varnish of course goes back much longer, but the kind of nail varnish we know these days comes from the automobile industry. And the Revlon brothers then thought, well, that's cool. You could actually apply this to fingernails as well. And that created a whole industry. The Revlon brothers then were the first in the 1950s that brought lipstick. As lipstick became ready for the market, they were the first to match lipstick to nail varnish in terms of color. And of course, this has huge economic importance to even in times of war, prices for lipstick remain stable and it keeps getting bought as well. So what am I getting at? Actually, both are technologies. We have here the technology, technology and beauty technology. At the end, they are not really much different. You see the guy that lost his fingertip and has built a USB stick to replace it. That was a few years ago. That stick only has about 2 gigabytes capacity. And then there is this fashion blogger who applied 53 coats of polish, which of course is some kind of body enhancement as well. And anyway, these long nails, you know, if you sit in the subway perhaps and you see people with these hugely long fingernails operating their telephone, their moves are very different to the ones that you would make. And that of course is the apocryp, the typical... This changes the way you have to deal with your devices. This is cosmetics made just for the media. It's a foundation that you can wear if you are getting photographed. This is a transparent foundation of the next generation, which is particularly to make the facial skin more photogenic in the camera because every impurities are blurred. In my opinion, the new lipstick is actually a snapchat filter that really deforms your face and deconstructs it. The makeup for the digital self is much cheaper. It's more speculative. One euro jewelry brooch. And here a short detour into plastic surgery or accident surgery, which came about when the first guns were produced and the first gunshot wounds came about in war and faces had to be reconstructed. Emergency or accident surgery came about, which then came turned into plastic surgery, which is about body modifications that are not always medically required. This is Martina Bick who documented it very well. She has changed her skin to that of a black woman completely, so well-seen documented in these pictures. But there is this transracial theme as well. And then, of course, there are products like this where colored people use creams to lighten, to bleach their skin and become lighter and approach a Western white image. And that too, skin fair, intensive activator fairness cream, one euro jewelry brooch. Exactly. So how can you use technology? Do you have to be a software developer if you want to know computers? So I'm now coming towards my own work and I'll show you a few alternative body images or make them accessible to you and do computers actually like pink? Lutterpop, Modem Ethernet Cable 2016, one euro jewelry brooch. And this is a work from 2014. You know, from YouTube, when you have to wait for a video, you know, these loading images, and I made that into a pearl necklace. It's an animated gift that everyone can have, but the question is how do you deal with that? How can you wear it? There's this discrepancy between the digital and your own body, and that is, of course, a very interesting discrepancy. It doesn't have to be resolved, but it somehow has to be felt or reflected. One euro jewelry necklace. Nadia's Magnetic Nail Art Studio. This is something I did two years ago, showed at Congress in Hamburg at the time. That's where I premiered, actually. And surely you know this. There are many people that implant RFID chips into their hands or small magnets, new dine magnets, and you can then feel electromagnetic waves. And I then thought, well, why can't you do that on the thing? You know, that must be much cooler. You can move a ball to it and it looks good. And you can do all kinds of tricks with it. And I was sitting there for three days and applied nearly nine measures to people's fingernails. In a portable nail studio. This is a fun fact. I don't know if you know this guy. It's the founder of the progressing language. I have done his fingernails as well. Well, you can do a lot of nice things with it. You can move this little bit. One euro jewelry brush. One euro jewelry brush. I told people about this, that I do these fingernails. Then they have a lot of many ideas. Then I started with this Nathya Snail art residency. And I invite different artists what you can put on the fingernails. They don't have to be long and colorful, but you can do a lot of more. When you look here, it's coming to total recall nails. They have reproduced. This is a scene where the secretary tips on the fingers and changes the color. And on the science hack day in 2016, we have tried it and it's most important that we do it without LEDs. And you know this paper from the chemistry classes where Acer changes its red and the base changes its blue. The movie is total recall. It's a sci-fi movie where a secretary has really cool nail art. All she has to do is touch a little stylus to a color field and then tap her fingernails and the color changes. Just like this. This is the future of nail art science and because it has to go back, we have made a special feature called the recall where we can recall the previous color of nails. And we also have the Piss Nails project. We also produce Piss Nails in this project. And I also show you a little video. So with this nail, you can test your pee. Piss Nails. Because it's a Piss Nail. Shit, yeah, it's super boring. It's not happening. It doesn't happen anything. Because urine is slightly acid. And that's really difficult to produce urine that is based. One euro jewelry bracelet. With Aram Barthol we have a Piss Nails project. With Aram Barthol we have produced this post Snowden nails. And this is the whole Wikipedia in the English language. And on the middle finger we have a collection of 666 computer viruses. And on the index finger is the online library. And on the thumb is the whole Linux Kali system to boot. You also produce the small adapters so that you can put it into a computer. And here we boot the Kali system from the fingernail. One euro jewelry brochure. With Aram Barthol we have a Piss Nails project. With Aram Barthol we produce Piss Nails. And I simply show you the videos and I don't have to explain a lot. And I use YouTube. I really like to make the videos in the YouTube format. And this is the official video. Hi, welcome to Nadja's nail residence. And today we work with the artist Jana Barthol. Jana on this Piss Nails. Jana, nice to see you. Cool, are you ready? Nice to see you, are you ready? Cool. I'm a rose from concrete that was looking like nirvana. Gucci feet don't make any brand with my people. My bitches is dope, jay my niggas got the industry low. With the Kilo cocaine I got you feel brain free. 7-Eleven sent me my nigga Ditto. I bring order, stance this military niggas. Take effects cause I'm bold and killing it. And niggas cut the checks and the money look correct. If that invitation's sweet then I'm fucking with the rest. I don't give bomb niggas a slow disrespect. If you're living with your moms I'ma have to say next. I don't like simple guns, it's hot and I'm gunning for your temple. You want a feat and I'm flying continental. Hounds is more than a dollar and a peso. Fuck your bomb niggas, papa that's a no-no. If your money's slow, the nigga, you got the go-go. This is a no-bombs zone. If you look at me, could you but the gold. We have just lost the saalton on top of the copter. Wow, good nails, it's actually gold. Nails from real gold. Yeah, it was just a fancy idea. These grills that you can put on your teeth. The saalton was there for a short time and it's gone again. The fingernails are to be built. So that they don't get stuck to one piece. And actually also a mixture of slag rings and... Hello, we don't have any saalton on the copter in the translation. What fingernails of the age are somehow. They're a bit of a weapon anyway. So you have these claws and you have a female response to grills. Are they practical? I know, they're practical. Yeah, mega practical. Sorry, by the way, we had a loss of sound for a moment, so I couldn't touch everything. And the other nice thing is that they are detachable. And there's many ways... There's a problem with many kinds of nail decorations that you cannot take them off if you want to use a tool like a drill or something that you might break. And now with those grills nails, that is no longer a problem. Yeah, exactly. Cool. One euro jewelry necklace. It's the art nail. This is the art nail, nail art for your wall. You can exhibit nail art this way. One euro jewelry brooch. This is the SBBOD, spinning Beach Boy of Death for Daviduans. Now this is an exclusive chain for Daviduans. It's made out of silicon in the year of the god. It's a circle that strives to unite the inner contradictions and its circumference is variable, but limited. You of course... I guess you all know what the spinning Beach Boy of Death also is. It's a pointer in Apple's Mac OS X. Whenever an application does not respond anymore, that's what you get. So that's the Beach Ball of Death, of course. And this is a chain that many people can wear. It's an exhibition from Leipzig 2015. This is a chain that you must not wear on your own. One euro jewelry bracelet. This is the Wi-Fi chain and animated gift from Cardboard and String. One euro jewelry bracelet. Now these are the GPU cooling nails. One euro jewelry brooch. A fingering, which perhaps you have seen before. That went viral earlier this year. And it is a replica of my left... What's this, the pinky? It's a ring that is wearing finger. So that aliens can wear it too. And robots can wear the human-like accessories. And humans can have the six finger. Now this, of course, is about the question why don't we have the six finger. Many people did have one earlier in their lives. I think this is poly-duck to be... I don't know if I'm pronouncing this correctly. But mostly at kindergarten age this is getting removed because it doesn't work well with the others. And there are no six finger gloves either. Opening and closing the door. Closing the door with a sixth finger. Switching the light on and off with a sixth finger. Using a smartphone with a sixth finger. And I even made it to position 17 on Google when you're searching for finger. One euro jewelry necklace. And of course a parallel to this. Yes, it's a real earring. That was created a real prosthetic. That isn't a prosthetic in the usual sense. Jewelry as an extension and a prosthetic. And that comes in all kinds of skin color turns. And the right ear is a female one. And the left ear is male, of a male. So two subjects. And there is a woman in California that bought an ear for me. On her driver's license she is wearing three ears now. And not many perhaps think this so cool. And there were many, many comments under these articles. I said I made an artistic penis from silicone and I'm leaving it hanging out of my trousers in original size. But not many people like it is one comment. You can read it yourself. So this is no jewelry but something for Halloween. If the woman regards this as jewelry I would urgently ask her to seek medical help. It's very interesting. It went viral and I then knew, okay, I kind of hit a sore point there perhaps. That wasn't that clear to me earlier. And this is my favorite comment is this. And people are worried about Donald Trump when this shit is going on. Okay, one Euro jewelry brooch. Now this, just briefly, I actually am serious about all this. And actually this is about taking that male idea of the cyborg and the arms, the technological arms race and I hope you've had some fun with that. Thank you.