Paranoid of Androids
Done for a digital art project that the teacher named 'Cyborg Futures'. Here's the statement I wrote to explain my take on the idea.
[Paranoid Android]
More interested in the static than the signal - enchanted by the glitches, not the code. The zeroes, not the ones. I want to see the flaws. I don't have a functioning memory, so I trust my computer, trust the hard drive over my own mind. It is supposed to be rational where I am not. Dependable while I am not. What do I do when it fails me? I can't trust machines. I refuse the idea that they are perfect in ways that humans are not. It's a lie. Created by humans, perpetuated by technology. Gears rust, dust gets stuck in the circuitry. I want to show the cyborg as he/she/it really is. No better than I am. More durable, perhaps, less malleable than my own flesh and blood and bones. But nothing more than a harder, shinier shell around material and matter as prone to mistakes and failure as my own gray matter.
Digital Photography
Fuji Finepix 2600
