May 30, 2010
Augmenting Inadequacy?
The final submission for the Digital Media DOING module requires a response to the theme of “Extensions of Man” – invoking a McLuhanesque conception of communications media & technology as extensions ov our human capability.
This relates nicely to a new project I have been developing – Augmented Inadequcies – in collaboration with the artist Alan Smith and Allenheads Contemporary Arts:
Augmented Inadequacies
by John OShea
Traditional technological developments promise ever greater speed, power and independence and foster a notion of autonomous identity. Invention, a beloved offspring of necessity, solves problems and bridges gaps, effortlessly articulating both will and whim, diluting distance and domesticating desire. Through an open-ended dialogue and iterative process, John O’Shea will work in collaboration with Alan Smith, to propose and prototype new technological works – “strange inventions” – which will run counter to prevailing technological trends and attempt to make our human vulnerability, fallibility and mutual inter-dependence more visible and tangible.
