AMBERED: The Techno Past We Left Behind No.1
2024
Epoxy resin, pigment, waste discs,
disassembled parts of scrapped smart watches
15x7 cm
We continuously manufacture, use, discard, and recycle, creating a cycle.
Just as food enters the body and is broken down, absorbed, and excreted through the digestive system, the products of industrialization undergo a similar “metabolic” process. The byproducts of this process, typically outdated products and discarded items resulting from global industrialization, gradually become useless and are eventually “discharged” into the corners of the world, transforming into the “fossils” of obsolete technologies. Through this metaphor, the artist invites the audience to reflect on the side effects of industrialization and consumer society: When these "outdated media" no longer hold defined economic value, they become like a stale piece of cake, gradually losing utility over time.
During field research, the artist collected disassembled parts from outdated smartwatches and old CDs, replaced by newer technologies, which seem to be preserved in a kind of "amber" state as time passes. The work attempts to prompt us to reconsider the relationship between technology, consumption, and ecology, and to reflect on how we unknowingly coexist with waste and obsolete objects.
我们制造、使用、抛弃和回收，形成循环。
就像食物进入人体后通过消化系统被分解、吸收和排出，工业化进程中的产物也经历着类似的“新陈代谢”过程。代谢后的剩余部分常是全球工业化带来的淘汰产品和旧物，最终被“排放”到世界的角落，成为过时技术的“化石”。当这些“过时的媒介”不再具有人为定义的经济价值，它们就像一块“过期的蛋糕”，随着时间的流逝变得无用。在田野调研过程中，艺术家收集了随着产品更新迭代而被淘汰的旧款智能手表拆解件和被新技术取代的光碟，它们仿佛在时间的流转中凝结，被固化成某种“琥珀”状态。作品试图提醒我们反思技术、消费与生态之间的关系，以及思考我们如何在不知觉中与废弃物和无用之物共存。