Machines of Sunshine
Developed in collaboration with Benoit LePottier and Jasmine Bose Partridge
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Whatever differences between man and machine existed in the past have been thoroughly eliminated. Technology and biology operate on the same frameworks, and have taken on a new kind of mutualism. Our survival is dependent on the tools we have crafted, even as we near mankind’s self-made apocalypse. In what new forms must our mechanics materialize?
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A garment arose that did not refuse biology nor mechanics in its design. Constructed from steel, it is a defensive object for an imagined yet looming future where our only hope as humans is to merge with our machines.
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Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum… People are nowhere near so fluid, being both material and opaque. Cyborgs are ether, quintessence.— Donna J Haraway
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