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CHRIS COLLINS

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Obsolescent Beings

In this day of technological advancement, one is overwhelmed with mechanisms of manipulation. Technology is moving faster than the machines that utilize such, thus creating a wasteland of obsolescent things. These things, once used to store information, turn on, and tune in only exist as empty visages of their own utility. It is these things that will be used to understand us as a culture. These obsolescent mechanisms
re- present themselves as fetishes to the culture of obsolescent technology and information.

This body of work serves as a monument to obsolescent technology. Dead machines were molded, re-configured, and transmuted into a new existence as pure things, things lacking any other use except for that of their object hood. Previous function and utility of the original object is removed, and re-presented as fetish, totem, and idol of what is now and what has been. I utilize physical information stored within libraries of molds as would a historian, piecing together fragments of information of things since past. Reappropriating. Revising. Remixing. Representing… creating a newly distant history from the present.

Formal Studies

BFA University of Montevallo – Montevallo, AL 2002. Painting
MFA Memphis College of Art – Memphis, TN 2005. Sculpture

 

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