A Cybernetic Meadow
In 1967 Richard Brautigan dared to imagine a technological dreamland where 'mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky'. Forty-five years later, how's that looking?
A Cybernetic Meadow was an experimental installation, build and Open Studio hosted by The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough and curated by Lizz Brady. Over seven days we built a series of structures that explore our relationship to technology. Are we addicted to our phones? Is social media infantilising us? How can we process the deluge of information that is available to us? Visitors were able to walk in, through and around animations and soundscapes.
The result provided an opportunity to step back and reflect on Brautigan's vision of a tech utopia, and ask ourselves where we are heading.
A Cybernetic Meadow was an experimental installation, build and Open Studio hosted by The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough and curated by Lizz Brady. Over seven days we built a series of structures that explore our relationship to technology. Are we addicted to our phones? Is social media infantilising us? How can we process the deluge of information that is available to us? Visitors were able to walk in, through and around animations and soundscapes.
The result provided an opportunity to step back and reflect on Brautigan's vision of a tech utopia, and ask ourselves where we are heading.
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With thanks to The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough and Arts Council England.
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A Cybernetic Meadow
Installation, build and Open Studio
New animations and soundscape
Limited edition zine
Installation, build and Open Studio
New animations and soundscape
Limited edition zine
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A Cybernetic Meadow Zine
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Photo credits: Rachel Deakin, Lizz Brady and Robert Good