{"id":131,"date":"2018-02-15T21:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T21:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca\/crimelab\/?p=131"},"modified":"2021-01-12T23:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T23:14:05","slug":"pacetaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca\/crimelab\/2018\/02\/15\/pacetaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacetaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>By Julie Funk, XDM MA Graduate.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"metaslider-id-132\" style=\"width: 100%;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-108-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-132 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Pacetaker\" data-height=\"700\" data-width=\"1400\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_132\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_132\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-137 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-02-15 21:16:26\" data-filename=\"IMG_3774-bw-1400x700.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca\/crimelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3774-bw-1400x700.jpg\" height=\"700\" width=\"1400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-132 slide-137 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-138 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-02-15 21:16:26\" data-filename=\"IMG_3749-1400x700.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca\/crimelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3749-1400x700.jpg\" height=\"700\" width=\"1400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-132 slide-138 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-139 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-02-15 21:16:26\" data-filename=\"IMG_3739_bw-1400x700.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca\/crimelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3739_bw-1400x700.jpg\" height=\"700\" width=\"1400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-132 slide-139 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n                <li style=\"display: none; width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-140 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2018-02-15 21:16:26\" data-filename=\"IMG_3762-1400x700.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca\/crimelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_3762-1400x700.jpg\" height=\"700\" width=\"1400\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-132 slide-140 msDefaultImage\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Pace-Taker<\/em> is a bio-art and digital media art project that challenges the user to recognize their own feelings of anxiety through interaction with digital technology. Borrowing the notion of \u201cpleasing anxiety\u201d from Soren Kierkegaard\u2019s ontotheological work, <em>The Concept of Anxiety<\/em>, <em>Pace-Taker<\/em> aims to create an experience of mindful anxiety by emphasizing the disconnect between the user\u2019s material physicality and the virtuality of digital technology.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pace-Taker <\/em>valourizes the corporeality of the user as it asks the viewer to become aware of the somatic responses to these digital anxieties. Centering the biological heart as a metaphor for the human, this project creates various environments of anxiety as the user defines and redefines their somatic relation to digital technology, challenging them to consider this anxiety as \u201cpleasing\u201d or mindful, and urging the user to consider these technologies through more esoteric and speculative conceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julie Funk, XDM MA Graduate. 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