the Immediacy of Efficiencies

It is a way to look at a paradoxical world where technology is supposed to make our lives easier, yet we seem to have less and less time. I feel that when we concern ourselves with running our lives efficiently on a day-to-day basis, we lose sight of the big picture. This piece is intended to convey these messages. As we pare ourselves down to just the essentials (in this case a heart and brain) we become less than human. Technology is then introduced to mediate between humans. The museum room is intended to point out how we try to preserve what of us remains human. The room with the vaulted ceiling is a sensorium. The room is portrayed in black in white to express the binary nature of mediated information. There is an encroachment of the biological in this room which appears as a tangle of neurons. Regardless of the I/O, computer-mediated communication is actualized by humans. The hallway represents a conduit that bridges our senses to our being. I hope to continue to explore the ways that technology defines what it means to be human.