The installation reproduces a room covered with posters taken from the manifesto mentioned above. The objects inside the room are a sofa, a foot massager, and a reproduction of a silicon running shoe used as a swing and simultaneously as a phone holder. I programmed my phone with an app that has access to my mobile sensors and chose to focus on the accelerometer sensor that can count how many steps you take each day, converting recorded motion into data. By swinging the shoe, my phone’s motion sensor reacts to the swing and sends this information (wirelessly) to a vibrating foot massager programmed with Arduino. While the shoe is swinging and my step counter records irrational numbers, I can sit, observe, relax, and get a foot massage. Once the swing stops, the foot massager stops vibrating. The simple swinging action reverses the aim and function of self-tracking into a gesture of resistance and refusal.
