Tag Archives: technology
A series of vignettes in Erica Rotberg’s excellent graduation film show how we, the emotionally detached, use a myriad of technology to absent ourselves from life, love and reality in general. She tells Short Of The Week:
From the beginning, I thought about the fact that the worlds we escape to are flat”, the filmmaker states as she moves on to discussing her visual approach. “Like in Hollywood – there’s good and there’s bad, and nothing in the middle. That’s so much easier than real life. Hollywood is a great escape. Also porn and comfortably sitting on the couch watching other people lives, or contacting people through short messages and post likes – it’s a sterilized way of being. Those thoughts about virtual, flat and fake realities brought me to make my first sketches in a flat style, and it developed from there.
A pit crew doing its thing at the 1950 Indianapolis 500 (1 minute, 7 seconds) and its modern counterpart at the 2013 Australian F1 Grand Prix (somewhat nippier).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz6KvO-Gvcc
Electronics giant Samsung’s vision of a future where everyone is connected via interactive displays.
Debuted at a recent investor conference, this rather idealistic promo showcases a day in the life of a tech-linked Korean family.
Coffee cup interface. Now that’s the future right there.
Sacred Space by London based artist (and former computer technician) Leonardo Ulian is a series of artworks inspired by the meditative depictions of the cosmos in Hinduism and Buddhism.
From flat geometric patterns to the miniature tree sculpture entitled Centrica Bonsai, all are made from soldered-together defunct radio and computer components of which Ulian sez:
“We live in a society that worships electronic technology,” he states “both for necessity but also because it makes us feel better, not unlike its own new form of fashionable spirituality.”
Sacred Space is currently on exhibitiion at the Beers Contemporary Gallery in London.
What indeed?
From the nice chaps at The Derrynane Robot Club who brought you Extreme Bottled Water.
Images from ‘master disassembler’ Todd McLellan‘s book Things Come Apart, in which he reflects on the inner gubbins of 50 objects broken down into 21,959 component parts.
It’s a commentry on the permanence of repairable vintage tech versus the disposable functionality and rapid obsolescence of modern devices.
So now.
McLellan is currently exhibiting at The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry until May 19th, if you’re in the neighbourhood.