The lecture-performance explores the intersection of science fiction, space travel, and gender identity. Despite a male biology, the performer aspires to become Cassiopeia, a multi-gender space girl who transforms her sexual arousal into art and music through medical sensors and computer processing. The tactile stimulators of the pleasure spacesuit respond both to the performed music and to data drawn from human physiology, environmental sensors, and cosmic phenomena.
Rudolf Arnold, a mathematics and physics graduate from the University of Ulm, has been a media educator since 1980, co-founding Radio Free FM in 1995. A cosplayer since 2006, he has embodied Hatsune Miku in "Still Be Here" and joined the smart fashion community in 2013. Since 2014, he has been an experimental musician and won Berlin's Fashion Hack Day awards. In 2018, he collaborated with Dr. Nicole Prause to develop a novel sensor for the sonification of sexual arousal, showcased globally. His "Pleasure Space Suit" concept debuted at the "7th International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots." Presenting as "Cassiopeia, the Science Space Girl," Rudolf's art merges technology, gender identity, and space exploration, with works like "Cosmic Caresse" featured internationally. Recent performances include "Cassiopeia's Secret" at NIME 2024, exploring themes of space sexology, music, astrophysics, and gender identity.
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