Why the Museum of Failure though?

"The intersections of popular culture and new media have become central in shaping our everyday lives and in ordering our routine experiences" - David Beer

This made me consider the interconnectivity of media and Instagram as a platform and just how centralised it has become to our culture. Culture itself is such an ambiguous term but many would argue it is part of everything - similar to our collaborative new media relationship.

In order to reach full interconnectivity the sites must be utilised.

"On a micro-blogging platform like Twitter (or Instagram can be used) this [collaborative] layer might take the form of an instruction to 'use the #iranelections hashtag on your tweets, (sic)' or on a photo-sharing platform. These mechanisms aggregate the content into a new social object." - The Social Media Reader

From this view it becomes less about content and more about the infiltration, which makes me consider the idea of obsolete technologies as there is not a care for what they are, but a want for new 'so say' better things. 

The Museum of Failure has been created to exhibit what we no longer care about and how it has just been tossed aside. Presented in a digital era online to show what failed, and when the project continues if we are to look back on the first obsolete technologies thrown on to the street, we would probably not even be able to decipher them.

#ewaste #tech #digital #art #media

A photo posted by @curatingartmuseumoffailure on Apr 23, 2016 at 5:46am PDT

Challenging digital consumption

Technologies become obsolete and are left for dead, leaving a trail of inadequate failures.

Using my image collection and embracing [although warily] digital platforms is a form of irony I want to be interpreted. I am very much challenging digital remnants and us as consumers - using a digital platform provides me with a satirical approach to my concept. 

The intimate moments are curated and captured with the location clear. Filters and angles help to promote my images in a way that questions our current digital consumption. I think to try and sell this stuff would be really interesting as it provides a solution to the continual discard of e-waste, an optimism.

It is a consistent project which could span a long time and then when you look back to when I started it the technology that is being discarded would be non-existent and we would all be throwing out our iphone 6's, Macbook airs to make way for our iphone 10's. It makes me question the future, which is something I could explore, will phones even exist in 50 years or will we be able to compress technology even further?

#exhibit2

"Obsolete devices begin to express tales that are about something other than technical evolution" - Jennifer Gabrys (Digital Rubbish: A natural history of electronics)

Juxtaposition

A photo posted by @curatingartmuseumoffailure on Apr 23, 2016 at 6:33am PDT

"This juxtaposition illustrates the shortening cycles of obsolescence, and poses the question, how long until the high-tech, cutting-edge 3D printed boxes are relics too?"

"The question should not be, 'What’s the best way for me to throw away my phone/computer?' It should be, 'How can we design a phone/computer that we don’t have to throw away?" 

- Julia Christensen

on The Creators Project

Museum of Failure exhibits