Kazuhiko Hachiya’s Inter Dis- Communication Machine is a communication system aimed at transmitting and receiving sensual experiences.
Used by two people wearing head-mounted displays, the ‘machine’ projects one wearer’s sight and sound perception of the environment into the other one’s display, thus confusing the borders between the identities of ‘you’ and ‘me’.
The Inter Dis-Communication Machine allows its wearers to ‘enter’ each other’s body and perception without being able to influence it.
Hachiya Kazuhiko was born in Saga, Japan, on April 18 (appropriately enough, Invention Day), 1966, and lives and works in Tokyo. After graduating from the Faculty for Visual Communication Design at Kyushu Institute of Design, he worked for a consulting company and started SMTV, a private TV station, as an art project.
His projects include a series of special communication tool series, among them Inter Dis-Communication Machine and Seeing Is Believing, and many objects with unusual functions, such as AirBoard, a jet-powered skateboard, and OpenSky.
Hachiya is the developer of the PostPet e-mail software and a representative director of PetWORKs, which engages in the development of PostPet-related software.
