the x-Series
Project Description: The x-Series: part of the Vertebra Installation
“Ultimately, we will have full-scale nanotechnology, which is just reorganizing matter and energy at the molecular level using information processes. That’s when I will be able to email you a toaster or toast or a blouse or a solar panel or a module to build housing or transportation. What we now consider physical products will become information files—email attachments.” Ray Kurzweil in an interview w/ Rocco Castoro
The x-Series is the first part of a multiplexed installation entitled Vertebra. The X-Series is made up of analogue based technological objects (primarily pre-circa 1985) such as VCR’s, AM/FM Receivers, Record Players and tube TV sets. Most of the objects have been skinned, that is, their covers have been removed and are displayed still functioning – projecting images and emitting sounds. In certain instances, only parts of the object’s technology, i.e. circuit boards, speakers, are presented and hung as disembodied affirmations of some past anthropological excavation.
The x-Series creates a psychological space of interaction between the active and non-active assemblage of objects, as participants explore and piece together the visual and auditory clues. Participants find themselves trying to follow, understand and make connections between the active objects which incorporate surveillance, broadcast (TV and Radio) and direct (VCR) transmissions, to those objects which remain inactive – experiencing their own thinking process to that of the objects which also project and enact their own sense of identity, thought process and occupation of space.
Video Documentation at Gallery 115, University of Ottawa, 2008
video documentation by Andrea Lawrence Playford-Beaudet
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