under your skin
Body art studio, London, UK.
- Microchip Implant Installation -
The Procedure:
RFID/NFC microchip implant installation procedure very simple, takes less than 10 seconds via a needle syringe delivery system.
The area of the hand is cleaned and we syringe the implant into the allocated area using the preloaded sterile syringe supplied by Dangerous Things. Its very quick and simple. The insertion hole is normally fully closed 2-3 days later and the swelling will dissipate over 2 weeks. The insertion scar is usually completely invisible by 2 months.
Programming/data loading is done by you. So if you are intrested to get more information about that go to the Connected section and find out about the Facebook group and other sources online.
* this video is a demo from another studio, open and free access online - [in order to avoid demonstrating personal data]
- Microchip implant -
- testimonies -
"C": Biohacker, London.
"a lot of the people I know done that are just for the sake of having one, they find it exciting, they considered themselves cyborgs", c.
"J": a biological Biohacker
"it's a conceptual idea, to open new whys to think about aesthetics of the unseen." J.
"H": Biohacker and co-producer of a Biohacking podcast in London.
"you normalise it, it's so embedded with your day to day life that you forget about it, you won't think of it.it's your hidden extension, you wouldn't know if I won't be interested for you to know", I
‘technological habitus’
‘technological habitus’ is a term introduces by Freund (2004) in his paper “Civilised Bodies Redux: Seams in the Cyborg.” drawing from Bourdieu, and his theory on "embodied consciousness", Freund claims that in order to overcome the current environments, which are becoming larger, deliberately machinic, contraction of artificial technological assembles, humans need a form of embodied adaptation.
Freund, P. E. (2004). Civilised bodies redux: seams in the cyborg. Social Theory & Health, 2(3), 273-289.