The computer mousepad \u2013 a flat piece of plastic, once indispensable, now almost forgotten. For decades, it served as the interface between human and machine. Today, it appears as a relic of that analog touch that preceded the digital world. The classic mousepad is made of EVA foam, which is also very popular as a costume material in LARP and cosplay. <\/p>\n
Sculptor Sonja Prochorow transforms this cult object into wearable sculptures. From a collection of hundreds of mousepads she created costumes and props for nine fictional characters \u2013 infused with pop-cultural references from the 1980s through the 2000s. <\/p>\n
The mousepads used come from precisely this period: an era in which digital technology first made its way into everyday life and the computer was seen as the promise of a bright future. Prochorow places three of the resulting characters in the setting of the karaoke bar \u201cSingvogel.\u201d Visitors have the opportunity to sing karaoke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1423,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"class_list":["post-1424","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankfurt-lab.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}