The project, ‘The Obscure Objects of Desire and the Rise of the Technological Chimera’ looks at how media technologies are remediated. How such technologies manifesting as objects emit a presence which is not singularly transparent but is in a sense haunted.
‘Untitled (aka Leonard)’ was the first Hybrid Sculptural Object, conceived for a series entitled ‘The Limits of Control’ (2009), followed by three other Objects entitled, ‘Untitled (aka Marta’), ‘Holy Cow Television’, and ‘Presence’.
Untitled (a.k.a. Marta) was developed in relationship to Untitled (a.k.a. Leonard). Each of these Hybrid Sculptural Objects were meant to interact with each other through the syncopated clicking and clanking sounds emitting from their speakers.
The introduction of digital technology shifted the way memory imprints were stored and accessed.
A Word About Technological Chimeras Thus the avoidance of contact with the real world and with concrete persons enforces the subject’s dominant position in his or her own world of imagination. The dissonance and noise of the material world, which cannot be reduced to a discursive construction, and the thrilling strangeness of the other are …