03 NOV 11: Phillip Stearns "Subliminal Machines". Opening reception: THU 03 NOV 11, 6:00 - 9:00 pm Artist's presentation: FRI 18 NOV 11, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
When the circuit is exposed, electronic technologies can take on an organic appearance. In my work with sculptural electronics, the components become crystalline lattices, skeletal structures, with wires functioning as any blood vessel or nerve bundle would. By making electronics physical, I invert the paradigm of miniaturization which constantly seeks to embed ever powerful computational devices in increasingly smaller spaces, choosing to explode the physical attributes of the circuits to give them a bodily presence. Under the banner of a “smarter world”, we are inundating ourselves with objects whose functionality forms a dynamic interrelationship of dependence. The devices are not yet autonomous, to be so would mean that they are able to re-program themselves. What this means is that the behaviour of the electronics is to an extent pre-determined, not by some heartless machine, but by a group of humans (hopefully not heartless ones). We cannot help but embed our value systems and biases into the devices we build. http://www.rabbitholeprojects.com/content/03-nov-11-phillip-stearns-subliminal-machines _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
