Statement:
duration and patience - knowledge representation and mediation - data enhancement
- parasites - ubiquity - indirection - ethnography - encoding - probabilistic
methods - exceptions - desire and biometrics - the theory of everything
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Through inventiveness and persistence we as a species have separatedourselves
from the constraints of our natural surroundings. I see themedia arts in the
context of the history of automation technologiesinvented with the hope of improving
everyday life. The unquestioned pursuit of efficiency has made us slaves of
automation. It is, however, possible to conceive of and build machines that
function with various degrees of freedom from the plane of pure utility. My
work investigates, reacts to and anticipates these possibilities. I attempt
to stick ideatic wedges into the preconceptions of what technical mediation
is by a practice that is poetically inspired, radical and technically competent.
I believe it is time to reclaim from the purely utilitarian automation processes
that have come to define the fabric of our lives, desire. Where should such
a radical reformulation of the role of machinic mediation take place? Everywhere.
Right now.
