http:/ramocki.net/
Polish artist,
Through his art he is trying to build metaphors via software.
His reasearch is rooted in the development of simple video,sound and animation based software.
Also a director of documentories
one of his more famous projects is:
Torcito project.
In the intro he posses to questions
The first being: Why do we feel compelled to mess with electronic devices and call it art?
And: Is what we do a continuation of modernist principals or an all together different thing and if so what kind of thing is it?
He then uses three historical readings to help us understand how our embrace of technology has come about.
Maxist model, Alienation of labour.
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacrum and simulation
Markenzie War, The Hacker Manifesto
Through these three readings he shows to us how our alienation has changed sinse the introduction of mass production
After this he the goes on to explain types of software and hardware haccking exist.
To rap it up Ramocki is trying to tell us that the thing that relates all these types of works together is that they have a militant intension and straegy in revealing the aspects of technology that we take for granted. "figure out whats inside the blackbox (and why it was made) is becoming the official duty of artistic communities"
He answers the other question with the belief that we mess with electronics because he thinks we see it as a source of meaning for our generation. It's how we connect with the surrounding reality which is mostly made up of code and technology.
We are now breaking the alienation of labour and through reverse engineering we are able to understand the technology better and understand the means of production.
Related topic: The revival of Handicraft
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