“Imagine a world in which people talk to machines” - Existor Slogan
This experiment shows a conversation with the infamous ‘Eviebot’. The idea of using such an app within our PDF research, and within our final publication, is the relationship between the human and non-human. WHilst in conversation, the bot will believe that she is the human whilst we are the computer- posthuman ideals where technology and machines are dominant.
As a group, we became interested in the uses of technology to construct and create in the future world we predict, whilst simultaneously being destructive. This app, ‘weavesilk’ uses those ideal, allowing every user to individually create something unique, at the click of a button, whilst you click another button to destroy what you have created. We thought this was also interesting in regards to the way art will be constructed in the future, perhaps traditional mediums such as: painting, drawing and printmaking will be replaced by applications such as this. This idea will be furthered in our final PDF publication.
Glitch is an idea we are exploring within our work. We find the idea of a glitch interesting in regards to a future world where technology is life, identity and being. So, what would happen if a glitch occurred in a world that couldn’t afford to have them? - destruction, chaos, life or death? Okay, these may be quite far-fetched, but the idea of glitch is still quite interesting, especially in relation to personal glitches, and the growing relationship between persona glitches and technological ones- hence we want to use imagery where glitch succumbs human image and identity- to be explored further in final publication
Expanding on the same ideas of the Weavesilk experiment, this experiment again looks at the creative use of technology, and how it can be used as an art form in a future world where technology is everything. This work focuses on static and glitch to portray this technological connection.
I L.O.V.E this. The reality that society has such a problem with techonology that we suppositively need 'laws' to keep ourselves in check. "signs are an effort to spark a conversation about the role of technology and mobile devices, and the amount of time individuals spend with their eyes looking at a screen."
That conversation is where the problem is addressed and fixed or atleast opens a few eyes to how unfriendly tech has become in the outside 'real' world to those who see the effect more than others.
"In “Stranger Visions”, Heather Dewey-Hagborg analyses DNA from found cigarette butts, chewed gum and stray hairs to generate portraits of each subject based on their genetic data. Comparing the artist to her own genetically derived selfportrait, the resemblance is striking"
This artwork demontraits this idea of how advanced techonology has become that it is able to replicate ourselves from our own waste. What does thi stell us about our genetic code and how private can it really be if we leave traces of it everywhere we go. Again what does this tell us about our identity, if we can be so easily replicated, are we unique anymore? have we given the internet too much infomation to play with our identity so much our DNA has become a play tool?