Project name: I love my computer
LINK TO WEBSITE ABOUT PROJECT: https://computerdeath.neocities.org/
about the project (short)
this project is dissecting the relationship between a human and its machine, from their bodily differences to their imaginary ones. the installation asks the question: can you grieve a machine as a non-machine? and is there any equality in the nature of such relationship?
summaery / funeral
trying ways to grieve through installation installation: floating sculpture of computer with "open body" - look at organs (human) with dreams spilling out of it
floating painting/drawing of me with computer
having Parte for computer
+ Kondolenzen with candles (audience can interact)
for more details look at section TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
catalogue text without I
"I love my computer" is an artwork focusing on the co-dependency between a machine and its human, as well as their differences. The multimedia installation deals with themes of love, loss and embodied cognition, through the eyes of a non-machine, who longs to understand the machine in his life.
The artist is in a state of hallucinating - projecting emotional competency on an inanimate object. Some of the consequences of the human influencing the non-human are: hallucinations,delusions, body dysphoria, skewed judgment, impulsivity, bad motor coordination.
disclaimer
no generative AI will be used for the creation of this artwork. this is a deliberate choice, to disrupt the bulk of ai-generated content that has overcome the digital art sphere.
basic information
the focus of the artwork is the co-dependency between a machine and its owner/human, as well as their differences. It is presented as an installation.
background idea
I have wanted to make an artwork about my computer for a long time now and I feel like this class is the perfect place for it. Bodies of machines are fascinating to me and I love to look at them. I don't understand much about the inner workings of computers so this project will have a more poetic aspect to it too.
idea
I feel love for my old computer but at the same time it is dying and almost unusable for its purpose. We have lived with each other for such a long time and now that relationship is basically ready to die but who decided that? The machine or me? and how could we maintain a relationship? if my computer could speak our language what would it say? - in this project I will create a multimedia artwork about the relationship between my late computer and me. It will focus on the life of a machine and human together and how a relationship like that works. I will compare our parts and see if they are similar in any way or if we have anything in common. The body of machine and non-machine.
Through different mediums I will depict our relationship with each other, I will try to show how I see my computer and how my machine might see me. Another aspect I want to explore is if it is possible to have a relationship between a machine and non-machine as equals.
technical description
installation - objects hanging in the space
during summaery:
needed for installation; - 1 steel pipe - red thread - tape - metal plate - tiny light
Konsolenzbuch taped on wall, with candles on metal plate on floor in front of it. There is also tape for the visitors to interact with. A pen is fixed on the wall with red tape, so people can write in the book.
The drawing is fixed in the air by two pieces of red thread on the steel pipe.
The Parte and text are also fixed in the air by 1 piece of thread each on the steel pipe.
The body of the computer is also floating in the air, hanging from the steel pipe with a red thread. The dreams that are spilling from the computer hang until the floor. There is a small light in the computer body to illuminate the blood.
references
- Fernando Pessoa - Book of Disquiet for its poetry about being human and what makes us different than machines
- Internet dream (1994) by Nam June Paik
- wounds of christ - Damien Hirst
- the body horror of Akira (1988)
- more to be added -
other
wikimedia - open source images new art city - virtual art space threejs - open source tools library body without organs