KRISTINA CRANFIELD

 

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Selected works

Requiem for Varna (art residency) (2012)

Detention Grounds (2012)

Falling from Heights (2012)

Gene CHP-48/0Z-378 (2012)

The Future of Mechanical Turk (2012)

The Geometry of the Crowd / One Minute Jobs (2011)

Signs (2011) photographs

Mind Control (2011)

Charlie Chaplin Ate a Shoe (2011)

Ownership of the Face (2011)

Anti-Social (2010)

Mind Control

This project depicts the scenario happening in Soviet Russia. The Soviet’s ideology was to achieve a totalitarian, crime free, state. Scientists were commissioned by the government to explore genetic causes behind offending behaviour. Blood and tissue samples from convicted offenders revealed an unnatural hormone. This hormone demanded a consistent flow of adrenaline that is only produced by experiencing violent behaviour. Research found that this hormone originates from being subjected to excessive violent imagery during early childhood and can develop in any normal person. The researchers looked for methods to control the hormone. They devised a state of the art chamber to constrained offenders while exposing them to vivid fluorescent lighting. Subjects fell into a hallucinogenic state and as they began to sweat, violent audio sounds were played to increase adrenaline.

This experiment provokes concern for our societal values, where humans promote aggressive tendencies. It suggests that this is happening to all of us everyday in an unconscious state resulting in real consequences.

Mind control films

Scanners (1981)

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Videodrome (1983)

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A Clockwork Orange (1971) filmslide
Concept model (Rhino) model
Concept model (Rhino)

Mind Control testing film (2011)

 

Stills from Mind Control (2011) gloves
Stills from Mind Control (2011) sweat
Stills from Mind Control (2011) chamber