Postfuturism first found its expression in the medium of sculptural collage, but recently its natural complementarity with the computer has been exploited, in part as a response to students' inquiries into abstract adjunction. 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.
These 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.
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