Furtherfield Blog

I have created a my artwork page http://fireant.itaiwan.net/20120123/show_colour_p2.php

The twelfth in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. Dr Hairy attempts to work out how to deal with a case of possible domestic violence - with hilarious results!

Suicide machine.  Type that into Google and you get three main things:

1) Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - an online software that helps you kill your social networking profiles;

2) suicide machine - a machine that helps assist people to die, created by the late controversial doctor, Jack Kevorkian; and

3) Suicide Machines - an American punk rock band.

Since the invention of the first mobile phone that looks back in the 80’s, or maybe earlier (?), we are confronted by a huge technological evolution that makes cell phones integral part of our everyday life. Who could imagine, a couple of years ago, that those “weird” portable phones would change not only our way of life but would also become part of experimental use within the Art field. Words like 3G, Bluetooth, sim cards and software applications are in use of our every day vocabulary. Phones became “smart” and humans smarter!