Tuesday, August 7, 2007

The Comfort Machine


This is a very weird, but fantastic sounding thing I saw on Culture Northern Ireland.
Basically there's a machine called The Comfort XxL, which is a comforting machine! It's actually part of an international art project by Jennifer Baumeister.

Baumeister asks people from different origins, age groups and genders to say comforting words into a camera. These clips are then made accessible through a machine, kitted out like an 1980s gambling machine. The person who needs comfort can then press a button, selecting a female, male or children's voice. A random clip giving comfort is shown.


It sounds like the hugging lady who gave out hugs in the RDS a while back...Breaking News had it way back when. Proper info about the Hugging Lady, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

I must say I am intrigued!

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