Cup Telephone
Year
2024
Material
PLA, Brass, Sensor, Controller, Aluminium, Polycarbonate
Size
H180 x D100 x W100 mm
This work is an experiment to perceive each other 'as they are'. Information acquired through language, culture, and experience puts an ambiguous filter on me. Through this filter, I perceive distorted information rather than something as it truly is. I wanted to feel the current state as it is, rather than perceiving someone through this 'processed information'. The human body generates minute electrical signals through life activities, which play an important role in transmitting and regulating information through the nervous system. I sought to find our primitive form in these electrical signals before the information is transmitted. This work was designed based on the form of a paper cup telephone, which served as a familiar and intuitive communication tool in my childhood. It is a structure for two-way communication, where when someone holds one cup, it detects the user's bioelectric signals. The detected electrical signals are then converted into sound and output from the cup on the other end. If two people are holding cups on both sides, their bioelectric signals mix, creating changing sounds.