hearing – Radical Atoms https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en Ars Electronica Festival 2016 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:26:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 The Hearing Implant Company https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/hearing-implant-company/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 16:05:06 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2632 MED-EL, Medical Electronics, headquartered in Innsbruck is a leading provider of hearing implants worldwide. The family-owned business founded by DI Dr. Ingeborg and Prof. Erwin Hochmair is one of the pioneers of the industry. The world’s first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant developed by the two scientists was first implanted in a patient as early as 1977. The cochlear implant marked a milestone in medical history as, for the first time, it was and remains the only replacement of a human sense, the sense of hearing. Today, MED-EL offers the widest range of implantable solutions to treat the various causes and degrees of hearing loss. MED-EL’s main objective is to overcome hearing loss as a barrier to communication, opening up a world of sound to people around the world.
There is still a great need for hearing implants worldwide: currently, fewer than ten percent of people who have a severe hearing loss receive a hearing implant. In Central Europe, roughly 25 cochlear implants are inserted per one million inhabitants per year; in other regions the number is only five or even fewer.

]]> touch the sound 2.0 / sound-sculpting https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/en/touch-sound-2-0-sound-sculpting/ Mon, 01 Aug 2016 07:38:10 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/radicalatoms/?p=2409 Sound is said to be intangible, but it can be felt. Sound is considered ephemeral; nevertheless, it constantly surrounds us. Sound is movement and yet it can be perceived only when sound waves strike our body. In the wake of touch my sound, touch the sound 2.0 / sound-sculpting by Werner Jauk now makes another concerted effort to focus auditory attention on the importance of the interface that is the human body and to explore the reality-constructions of two dissimilar, sensory forms of interaction—on one hand, mechanical, passive, analytical hearing of fleeting sounds; on the other, active deployment of our sensory apparatus and thus synthesizing vision. The systemic variation of them forms the sound into stationary gestalts, models of the physically tangible materialization of immateriality.

Constantinos Miltiades, TUG – IAM
Julian Jauk, TUG – IAM
Marco Edlinger, KFUG – UNI IT
Doris Jauk-Hinz, grelle musik
Kevin Kolditz, FHS – MMA
Bence Toth, FHS – MMA

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