week 09- 03.06- Technology and Humans today

Assignment:

  • Create a work (an image of) your everyday relation to technology.

Comments

  • This project is an experiment: we will attempt to describe some effects of technology in our lives in a collective experimental presentation.
  • In class we focused our attention to three important art movements from the 20 century, all of which saw huge potentials in the technologies of their times. The impact of technology were so new that they needed to invent an equally new language to describe their new experiences.
  • In our experiment we will depart from the question: What is the role of technology in our everyday?

Suggestions

  1. Please revise the references included in the class chart. Follow the links to gain a better understanding of the history and ideas of the artists discussed.
  2. Consider the technologies that are part of your everyday: your phone, your computer, the bus, your kettle, the light in your room… Make notes about your everyday use of one of more of them.
  • How do they affect your life? What is your relation with it?
  • How would your live be different?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages?
  1. Create an image of that relation (‘image’ is here understood in the wide sense of the word that we have come to use in class). Bare in mind that your image will be projected in the room.
  2. Following the artistic approaches and techniques of the FLUXUS artists, consider involving performance elements in your work.

 

  • In class we will project more than one image at a time, thus creating a collective installation-dialogue with varied points of views on technology.
  • Consider bringing a snack to share