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'Arse is the window of soul.'
A modern simple chair. However, the surface of its seat is covered in transparent plastic. Beneath the plastic hides a scanner; thus the chair is able to scan the bottom of whoever sits on it and print out the image a few minutes later, giving the sitter an exact picture of his or her 'derrière'. The chair delivers a new visual and interactive experience as well as entertainment for its users.

The chair's concept was inspired by streakers (buttocks in particular) in British popular culture. Recently, people all over the world feel more confortable to publically express their sexual interests due to this spreading global phenomenon. Therefore the i-Bum reflects this visual sexual context in post-modern popular culture.

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Credit
Creation and direction :
Tomomi Sayuda

Conceptual advice :
Nicolas Marechal, Joel Karamath, Biggles
Technical support :
Nicolas Marechal, Alcwyn Parker, Shozo Kuze
Furniture building :
Wayne Pritchard
Music : <>BR/Kumiko Yabu, Makoto Nomura
Media appearance

Magazine
August 2009
Creative Review September 2009 issue(UK), as one of the best graduates in UK 2009

Newspaper
December 2009
City(Italian newspaper) December review magazine


4 October 2009
The Sunday Times, Culture magazine

Book
August 2010
Never use pop up windows/Anneloes van Gaalan,BIS publisher (Netherlands)

February 2010Crazy Tech, OLO editions (France)

TV

21 January 2010 N24 (Germany) news

16 October 2009 NHK BS-2 Digital stadium (Japan)

Web

May 2010 SPIEGEL ONLINE (Germany)
26 September 2009 Domus Web(Itary)

September 2009 Creative Review TV(video interview)
July 2009 Creative Review Blog


Past exhibition

February 2011 Art Mosh, Munich, Germany
November 2010 Art Mosh, London, UK

January 2010 IMM Cologne (International furniture fair), Cologne, Germany
October 2009 Frieze Art Fair, Resonance FM booth,, London
September 2009 AD Agency Mother London
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