Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Monday, 25 April 2016
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.
Sunday, 24 April 2016
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?
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?
Saturday, 23 April 2016
"Obsolete devices begin to express tales that are about something other than technical evolution" - Jennifer Gabrys (Digital Rubbish: A natural history of electronics)
Juxtaposition
"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
Chris Jordan, Gingham & Hashtags
Filter = Gingham
Creating an instagram account is alomst a satirical approach. Filters, angles and layout are supposed to enhance the carefully selected and curated image.
Even the Museum of Failure needs this to promote the fundamental concept of constant discard. Hashtags also become very important as they promote trends, trends date though until something better takes its place. Consider the iphone, do you even remember the first couple of models? Because I don't.
What happened to the mass physical products?
Chris Jordan has been a big inspiration and is concerned with this idea. Jordan deals with consumerism using numbers of wasted items for shock value.
Creating an instagram account is alomst a satirical approach. Filters, angles and layout are supposed to enhance the carefully selected and curated image.
Even the Museum of Failure needs this to promote the fundamental concept of constant discard. Hashtags also become very important as they promote trends, trends date though until something better takes its place. Consider the iphone, do you even remember the first couple of models? Because I don't.
What happened to the mass physical products?
Chris Jordan has been a big inspiration and is concerned with this idea. Jordan deals with consumerism using numbers of wasted items for shock value.
This piece of work, Blue 2015, consists of 78,000 plastic water bottles which is equivalent to 1/10,000th of people unable to access clean water on a regular basis. This means 10,000 of these prints would represent everyone unable to access clean water, according to Jordan, if these 10,000 prints were put side by side they would stretch 10 miles.
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.
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.
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