Hey :) > A discussion on the relationship between Detroit techno and art movements > would be cool, actually. Or has this been done before? It would be > interesting.
it's not directly related to detroit techno but there's an exhibition currently on at the NGA called 'techno art'. It's the work of an melbourne based artist, susan cohn. they have electronic music playing throughout the exhibition, which makes sense in that both draw on modern industry as an influence. Cohn has said she likes to use material or objects she sees in everyday modern (industralia) life and create them into pieces of jwelery (bit more besides that but u get the drift). Some of her pieces which are really onteresting are her survival kits; which include a condom, a telephone (tinsy wire piece), a magic pill that will save you but can only b used twice, hearing devices. She also has pieces which take the functional idea of a penciil or a walkman and make them pieces to wear with no function, except to look good. Anodised metal shaped like a walkman, but it doesn't work *grin*. Then there are her works that are fine wires you clamp to your face to help reduce lines or correct unseemly facial expressions, 'braces' for your face. Hmmm... very interesting and close to home for you cyclone. :) emma mee-thod -it's in the way that you groove it-
