Installation at the Blue Oyster Project Space, Dunedin, 2011
The Analogue Chair has books, for writing and drawing, inside the seed pods at the end of its 'arms'. The Digital Cell Case Film plays on the wall.
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| On opening night |
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| Sum reading in the Analogue Chair |
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| The Analogue Chair prototype, 2010 |
The Story of the ANALOGUE CHAIR
Empiricism is based on
observation. The chair is covered in eyes to collect information. The eyes
have evolved from pagan eye beads which warded off the unknown as
malevolent. But the empirical eyes gather and absorb information
indiscriminately and store it in categorising bands of colour. As the chair struggles to
contain more and more information it becomes ungainly and bloated and tries to
increase its surface area with extending arms and burrowing inner tubes.
It produces seed pods to replicate itself. The eyes multiply to accommodate
the stream of information. This model is a late analogue chair and
depicts a stressed system at the point of evolution. The frantic blinking eyes of
empiricism are about to morph into the unsleeping fibre optic eye of digital
storage that is fixed open to a permanent torrent of incoming information, an
eye that does not sleep, blink or rest.
Below is a link to the Digital
Cell Case Film that plays above.
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| Digital Cell Case still |
The DIGITAL CELL CASE film is a close up view of the collapse of the empirical system as it fails to adapt to digital media. It records a digital empirical cell case being overloaded with information until it collapses. More and more cells, stuffed with information, are inserted into the case until the membranes that divide the cells become so thin and brittle that they begin to crumble. The contents mix with the crumbling remains of the case itself and form an indiscriminate mass. Each cell loses its place in the storage system as the categorising walls are breached and the cell's contents: tiny particles of information, mingle with particles from other cells, and with cell case remains. Each item of information loses its integrity and the case loses its authority as a container.
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Enlarged Particle Model 1, linen and nylon, 8 x 8 x 8mm
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| Enlarged Particle Model 2, linen and nylon, 6 x 8 x 8mm |
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| Enlarged Particle Model 3, linen and nylon, 5 x 8 x 8mm |
