Interrogative Art, Performances, Cultural Criticism, etc....

2002

Decontamination, Surveillance and Ready Made Martial Law in the Anthrax Age ISEA 2002, October 27 to 31.
DECONference 2002: Freedom from the possibility of carrying contraband or contamination.
2001
CYBORG: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer published by Randomhouse Doubleday (found by WWW search with word "cyborg" on the chapters.com site).
Sousveillance, not just surveillance, in response to terrorism
35mm motion picture film about wearable computing... "Cyberman, is about a genius computer geek at the U of T who created the world's first wearable computer." -- Globe and Mail See also, other Cyberman reviews.
Social commentary on mass decontamination facilities. There is also a curatorial essay for the exhibit.
Subjectrights: an alternative to the concept of Copyright.
Mass Decon: Social commentary on Mass Decontamination, quarantine, domestic preparedness, and martial law (Apr. 1, 2001)
Seatsale: an exhibition of Seat Licensing in San Francisco.
2000
Microseconds and Years: an exhibition of Lightvector Paintings at the Olga Korper Gallery
Free Source as Free Thought: Architecting Free Standards
The Newsflasher

Pictures of WearComp as it has evolved over more than 20 years.
An exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, of various embodiments of WearComp
Prior Art: an exhibition of architecture designed for a single occupant. This work includes Please Wait
Exhibition at pARTs photographic arts gallery, March 1999

If you would like to show me an advertisement, please press 3, and slide your credit card through the slot on my head to purchase my attention!
One of Mann's typical installations, which includes PleaseWait, at the McLuhan Centre of Culture and Technology, October 19-31, 1998 (there is also a larger version of the above picture (may be slow: 1.1 Mb))
The opening of this exhibit was coincident with Mann's Keynote Address at the McLuhan Symposium on Culture and Technology: I am a Camera: Humanistic Intelligence is the medium; our everyday living is the message
Wearable Computing as Means for Personal Empowerment (Prof. Mann's ICWC-98 Keynote Address)
Reflectionist Issues in Humanistic Intelligence: Accident as a means of seeing the walls of hegemony's cell
The Slowglass Club
WearComp and WearCam as Nomadic Personal Infowar Machines: Personal Empowerment through the use of Reflectionist Media as a Protective Element (adapted from Reconfigured Self as Basis for Humanistic Intelligence)
Images from a trip Shopping for a Pair of Levis

Humanistic Intelligence (Invited Plenary Lecture at Ars Electronica)
Also at Ars Electronica, a week long performance piece called Sicherheitsglaeser
Retrospective exhibit, at MIT, of various embodiments of the WearComp/WearCam, with an emphasis on those designed to question the role of surveillance in society
Reflectionism and Diffusionism Leonardo 31(2) (includes MaybeCam)

A Small Gallery of Video Orbit images
Sphere's Looking at You, Kid: Shooting Back at the MIT Bookstore
'Smart clothing': Wearable Multimedia Computing and 'Personal Imaging' to Restore the Technological Balance Between People and Their Environments: how wearable technologies can protect our privacy and freedom as the world around us becomes "smarter" and more intrusive (ACM Multimedia, 1996)
The telematic remotely controlled body in the above has been built upon by others: tele-actors
MaybeCam: proposals for several works of reflectionist performance art (included in Reflectionism and Diffusionism)
The Eudaemonic Shoe: the originals!