In 1967 Richard Brautigan dared to imagine a technological dreamland where ‘mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky’. Forty-five years later, how’s that looking?
My project In Search of Silicon Valley approaches its conclusion next week with an opportunity to draw everything together and prototype some new work.
A Cybernetic Meadow will be an experimental installation, build and Open Studio hosted by The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough and curated by Lizz Brady. Over seven days we will build a series of structures that explore our relationship to technology. Are we addicted to our phones? Is social media infantilising us? How can we process the deluge of information that is available to us? Visitors will be able to walk in, through and around animations and soundscapes.
The result will be an opportunity to step back and reflect, and ask ourselves where we are heading.
There will also be new animations, plus a new soundscape and lighting experiments.
So join us in Middlesbrough next week if you can – would be great to see you.
With thanks to Arts Council England and The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough.
