Pump works slowly; it is inherently unproductive, and exudes a dragging feeling. Its sluggishness bends time and screens us from a linear normative experience. It is a performative act allowing for an examination of loss and liminality of feedback networks. The unknown oozes from remnants of each cycle. It follows a logic all its own by injecting meaning into recognizable processes of suction and dropping. This intelligent object is connected to a trained network. The dropping water changes the displayed data in real time. It has a digital twin in the form in which it receives data. Consequently, the pump evolves into a physical-virtual ecosystem.
Technology has never been innately malicious, but we made it so by forcing it into shapes familiar to us and refusing any weirdness. To truly befriend it, we must speak with genuine empathy towards it. At the brink of this self-wrought collapse, this pumping machine could be the last thing clemently screening us from peril.
Photo: Linda Lach
Photo: Linda Lach
Bio
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Photo: courtesy of the artist and wanda galleryLinda Lach
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Linda Lach’s art practice combines scientific research and art by using sound, graphics, sculpture, installation and painting to explores hunanity’s relationship with the digital world and the potential erasure of meanings and functions in data and objects. Through constant observation, mapping and deconstruction of individual and collective realities, Lach combines the anxiety of the necessity of constant decision making with the visual ordering of different variants of the real.
Credits
Courtesy of the artists and Wanda Gallery.
This project has been developed and is presented in the context of the FUNKEN Academy project. FUNKEN Academy is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
