The Postfuturist Project, the outgrowth of many years'
excursions with and engagement
in nontraditional artistic media, is an effort to
understand the implications for
media culture of the phenomenon of the "future".
In the belief that digital technology represents the
promise of liberation to those restricted, encapsulated,
and imbricated within the
post-colonial constructions of modern normative societal
"values", undermining the
hegemonic binary of subject/object through the liberatory
binary of 1/0, we hope to
expose and problematize the very existence of such
binaries in our cultural record;
it is the machine as mirror, ironically reflecting
precisely those "objective",
reductionist constructions which are radically questioned
by critical artistic texts.
The following technological encodings, then, comprise not a
mere translation of lived
experience into the mechanical realm, but a complete reconceptualization
and reinterpretation of the mind/machine dialectic.
Visual texts
Literary texts
Critical texts
Established in 1995, the Postfuturist Project
is currently a collaboration between artists at Brown University in Providence, RI and the University of California at Berkeley.
