GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Theo

Project name: I love my computer

basic information

the focus of this project is the co-dependency between a machine and its owner/human, as well as their differences.

background 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?

idea

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.

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 its able to have a relationship between a machine and non-machine as equals.

planned goals & artworks

painting, comic, animation, sound piece, photography, sculpture and website that documents the work

concrete plans:

- painting of how machine and non-machine embrace each other

- comic depicting language barrier

references

Fernando Pessoa - Book of Disquiet for its poetry about being human and what makes us different than machines

other

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