Digital Art: Suspending Disbelief
The machines are taking over
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That's it. The art's started selling itself. Give it another year or two and we'll all be like those miserable wobbly blobs of people in Wall-E: being carried around by machines far friendlier and cleverer than we'll ever be. The apocalypse begins in Brighton.
Lighthouse has a new digital art and design exhibition – Suspending Disbelief - from 28th August to 5th September, and among the works on show will be
Caleb Larsen's 'A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter': a sculpture that perpetually auctions itself on ebay.
It's not a low-maintenance purchase, mind.
In buying it you contract yourself to furthering its journey – once unpacked you must connect it up to the internet, allow it to sell itself, then send it on to the next owner. Possession is nine tenths of nothing at all, in this brave new digital world.
Part of Brighton's dConstruct conference, Suspending Disbelief aims to celebrate 'the often magical reality of our digital world'.
Other notable exhibits include Andrew Friend's 'Fantastic' is a series of devices that can, he claims, bring about remarkable experiences, like being struck by lightening or lost at sea.
These, and the other works on show as part of the exhibition, need to be seen to be believed, we would suggest.
More at the Lighthouse
Website.
