Slowly Failing

POST-AUTO MANIFESTO

 

 

  • WE NEED TO BREAK FREE FROM AN OVERBEARING SYSTEMATIC WORLD OF AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY.

  • WE CANNOT TRUST AUTONOMOUS DECISIONS MADE BY NAIVE MACHINES—TECHNOLOGY CARRIES THE SAME IRRATIONALITY AS MAN.

  • ALL AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY IS POLITICAL IN ITS AGENDA.

  • WE CALL FOR A HEIGHTENED SENSE OF AGENCY IN EVERYDAY LIFE.

 

 

 

Slowly Failing

 

Over the last 40 years technology has evolved to the point where it has become part of our life, everything is available at the click of a button. Automation is the pinnacle of technological efficiency, with machines acting automatically to service human needs. Technological innovation is advancing so rapidly that it is heading in a direction where the relationship between humans and technology is completely integrated rather than needing interaction.

 

In a possible future, could a ‘Post-Auto’ movement be born from an overbearing systematic world of autonomous technology? A movement that strives to subvert and dismantle the integration of human need and technology’s service. A reaction against the perceived rationality of autonomous technology.

 

Slowly Failing is an exploration, speculation, reaction, conceptualisation, realisation and manifestation of the ‘Post-Auto’ movement using today’s available technology to communicate tomorrow’s message. The exhibited experiments remove the human element from automated systems, thus removing the practical purpose from the generated output. Without practical purpose the output is seemingly useless as it has no real world application and serves no needs. This is what Slowly Failing explores – the possibilities and outcomes of technology when the user is removed from the process and the technology is left to produce on its own.

 

 

Slowly Failing Exhibition

7th-14th October 2016

Venue tbc.

Week One — Class

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