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

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

Meet the Museum of Faliure

Everywhere there is waste, but where does it go? 

The Computer History Museum  in California, exhibits old technology as an archive of digital evolution, "failed and obsolete technologies in abundance". Will Straw has coined this the Museum of Failure, and this is where my project starts.

Although a pessimistic outlook to consider the technical evolutions dead technologies, there is an importance to question and challenge the new locations of the obsolete, where has it gone? Since moving to London in September, I have been utterly baffled by the frequent encounters of e-waste strewn amidst the city. I think these moments need to be captured and exhibited to question the necessity of new technologies and is it justifiable economically, ethically, culturally and environmentally?

With these concepts, I am creating an online archive of e-waste to remember the moments of discovery, disregard and lack of want. It is important to utilise the internet in this project as this is a domain, an area for which content is continually recycled, disregarded and created.

It's really important to use the intimacy of where the e-waste is found because it is that intimate moment which drives the idea. I have created an instagram @curatingartmuseumoffailure, documenting where each item of matter was found. Instagram is infamous for recycled matter, and a constant stream of imagery [60 million uploads per day], which means [image value] alike the disregarded matter is subsequently decreased in worth.