[NetBehaviour] 03 NOV 11: Phillip Stearns "Subliminal Machines".

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03 NOV 11: Phillip Stearns "Subliminal Machines".

Opening reception: THU 03 NOV 11, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist's presentation: FRI 18 NOV 11, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

When the circuit is exposed, electronic technologies can take on an 
organic appearance. In my work with sculptural electronics, the 
components become crystalline lattices, skeletal structures, with wires 
functioning as any blood vessel or nerve bundle would. By making 
electronics physical, I invert the paradigm of miniaturization which 
constantly seeks to embed ever powerful computational devices in 
increasingly smaller spaces, choosing to explode the physical attributes 
of the circuits to give them a bodily presence.

Under the banner of a “smarter world”, we are inundating ourselves with 
objects whose functionality forms a dynamic interrelationship of 
dependence. The devices are not yet autonomous, to be so would mean that 
they are able to re-program themselves. What this means is that the 
behaviour of the electronics is to an extent pre-determined, not by some 
heartless machine, but by a group of humans (hopefully not heartless 
ones). We cannot help but embed our value systems and biases into the 
devices we build.

http://www.rabbitholeprojects.com/content/03-nov-11-phillip-stearns-subliminal-machines