Technological loneliness
Still continuing the experiments in The Cure, I want to try out one more concepts before completely giving up. I would like to explore the concept of technologies and its impact on how we deal with loneliness. I mentioned the idea of technologies been used as a cure, a hide away from loneliness. Internet chat rooms and mobile phones create a civilization where we can talk to anyone in the world, yet are alone in a room. The project is hard not to fall into cliques of artwork, for example, I normally would have done a print out of a social network, and worked on that. I think that it is a bit insulting to a viewer. I have decided to experiment on the actual technology that supplies this cure. I took some close ups of a key board. I made them blurry to represent the distorted vision of the new interactive culture and online salvation that the internet provides. Then took images of the internet not working, as a link to the truth.
In the end I didn’t like where I was going with this idea. I could develop the pictures into a montage or create a piece using them, but the idea seems dull so I decided to try a different medium. Plain pictures of technologies isn’t informative enough of my opinion, so I wanted to experiment with film. I bought a keyboard and used an old mobile phone. I then filmed destroying the key to the cure. I did this to see what it would like from a different perspective.
In the end I didn’t like where I was going with this idea. I could develop the pictures into a montage or create a piece using them, but the idea seems dull so I decided to try a different medium. Plain pictures of technologies isn’t informative enough of my opinion, so I wanted to experiment with film. I bought a keyboard and used an old mobile phone. I then filmed destroying the key to the cure. I did this to see what it would like from a different perspective.
The videos didn’t turn out as I expected. I lost the hammer that I was supposed to smash my phone with, so had to use a nut cracker, and the saw I used to cut the keyboard in half snapped. I liked the idea of filming the destruction of technology, but it didn’t turn out as expected, and am finding it difficult to think of a use for the videos. I am going to leave this idea for now, but may come back to it after I have created another mind map.
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