User:Themsen/SDR4

Description

Trying out how computer part look when glued together. Very basic, I know, but it reminded me of junk-sculptures. How we throw away electrowaste without doing something with it. We just put it back into the same system of recycling and don't consider what possible forms this waste could take. Basic prototype.

Second prototype was to attempt to build a wireframe shell. It worked, but it wasn't pretty. If I expand on this idea I'd like to glue these computer parts onto the wireframe in order to cover it in a electrowaste-surface. The mushrooms we make in the technological sphere aren't alive, and they don't consist of live tissue (other than the organic tissue that maintains them, us), they are dead to begin with but still work according to the metaphores we've appropriated from nature (reference: Insect Media by Jussi Parikka). By making these metaphores literal (by making a sculpture) I could project the understanding onto those who view it (tricky business)

I still have problems with connecting form to content. The mushroom is too alien to our understanding of our connected world. Unlike insects, they are understudied.