Digital Being: Scale, 2013 - 2014
Size Variable, Technological Garbage, Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Shown at the New York Maker Faire (2013), Cornell University (2014), and the CHI (Computer-Human Interaction) Conference in Toronto (2014).
"My curiosity" has led me to the things we’ve made through mechanical reproduction— consumed, forgotten, and left behind on the streets of New York in 2008. It feels like glimpsing my own era through Foucault’s episteme. Stepping onto the scale, lost and discarded possibilities flicker back to life before my eyes. Marshall McLuhan said, “The medium is the message”—not just a message, but an environment that shapes how we sense, feel, and think. Like standing within Deleuze’s rhizome, I drift through a decentralized, non-linear web— an extended mind flowing through living hyperlinks, as Merleau-Ponty envisioned. Within this matrix of signs, Baudrillard’s hyperreality takes hold, as simulacra begin to eclipse the real.
Stepping onto the Scale,
contemplating consciousness—
where Mind and Body converge in Monism,
where they part in Dualism,
and where the Multiple Realizability Theory unfolds.
At the CHI Conference in Toronto in 2014