| Dragu David on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:30:27 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: [Nettime-ro] \\ Googool chair | Ceci est une chaise - a surrealistnt |
Neurotics build castels in the air. Psychotics live in them. Psychiatrists charge the rent. ************************************************************************************** [email protected] wrote: \\ Googool chair | Ceci est une chaise - a surrealist DIY life experiment In our globalized modern society, where the police + mass media are largely responsible for the distraction of the population, most people live in order to lose themselves, yet the principal human occupation is to find oneself. Through our "Googool chair - a DIY life experiment", we redefine the idea of capitalist competition as the creation of situations that allow individuals to actualize their full potential. We introduce personal imagination as an infinitely affective and smart material which imbues collective reality and mass produced objects with a cornucopia of variability, whilst meaningfully connecting everything to everything else. We propose design as an evolving participatory process where the rigid borders between authors and audience are dissolved and dissipated into a permeable osmotic membrane. Our project retains a strong undertone of existentialism and constructivism -- the claim that a person obtains her raison d'être by creating her own worlds, that personal development and growth are realized through a multilevel and multidimensional way of life. By fully embracing the rapid protoytyping and DIY aspects of the competition, the "Googool Chair" simultaneously positions itself both within and beyond it. The "Googool Chair" reflects recent technological and socio-political trends, eg. the Internet, blogging, rapid prototyping, desktop manufacturing, personal fabrication, customizable mass production, while hinting at the immanent convergence of the physical and virtual, real and irreal, material and imagination, into a world wide continuum. Conversely by situating "Ceci est une chaise" as the reciprocal of Rene Magritte's "Ceci n¹est pas une pipe", we are complementing Foucault's observations, in allowing the similitudes to precipitate, to go from white to black, to relay indefinitely along the length of the series, regaining their names and infinite identities, rising endlessly into an ether where they refer to nothing more than themselves. NN ORDNUNG \+\ DISZIPLIN | | z!mpl plznt | |9| [p-un_kT-pr_o-T?k_oL] Ø f Ø Ø Ø 3 | herausgegeben vøm !nternat!onalen !nst!tut f:ur ordnung |+| d!sz!pl!n : / / www.m9ndfukc.org _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/