Greyson Earl Giombetti Schermerhorn
Artist Statement
The information environment of the 21st century has driven human evolution to embrace our technologies as servomechanisms or extensions of ourselves. After the invention of the satellite, computer, cell phone, and internet we now see all technology, including language, as a means of processing experience, a means of storing and speeding information. This electric, instantaneous, all-at-once environment has created an information overload and in such a situation all technology can plausibly be regarded as weapons. On the one hand, a new weapon or technology looms as a threat to all who lack it. On the other hand, when everybody has the same technological aids there begins a ferocious competition between social classes to establish identity.
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