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". Always looming, always receding, future is ambiguously implicated in everyday subjective experience and social production, yet future as cultural signifier is a highly problematic construction, evoking not only the intellectual hegemony of the inevitable, but also a contextualized subjective of epistemology. By transgressing this limited -- and limiting -- construction of future, the Postfuturist Project endeavors to provide a critical voice to the future and, therefore, the present.

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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