Brain Tumour helmets with Microwaves, by Australian artist Ian Haig, explores the impact of microwaves and their role in producing brain tumors, as in technologies such as mobile phones.

Two specially designed helmets direct tumour-inducing microwave radiations into the brain as the wearer moves throughout an installation of video monitors and antennas.

The helmets are fitted with speakers playing a sound-scape via radio receivers. The project plays out the fictional scenario of perversely suggesting that brain tumors can be created if one wears the helmet enough times at the right intensity.

The work addresses the impact of microwave technologies, not in order to highlight the evils of microwave technologies in society, but to engage notions of technology, which is potentially modifying the structure of our bodies, in this case through the brain tumor, as a catalyst of human/machine evolution/devolution.

The artist is also the author of the Anti ergonomic hump machine , a vicious chair that induces bad posture and promotes humps in the back of computer users.