GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/Theo

Project name: I love my computer

sketch for project

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

Parte

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)

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.

"I love my computer" is not a project dealing with the mental processes of a beloved household machine, rather it focuses on projecting emotional competency on an inanimate object. Some of the consequences of the artist influencing the machine are: hallucinations,delusions, body dysphoria, skewed judgment, impulsivity, bad motor coordination.

this multimedia installation artwork is about the relationship of a computer and its human and the love they have for one another.

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.

planned goals & artworks

painting, comic, sound piece, photography, sculpture and exhibition

technical description

installation - objects hanging in the space

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)

- Ju Schnee

- Body Fluids in Art

- more to be added -

other

wikimedia - open source images new art city - virtual art space threejs - open source tools library body without organs