Superstitious Appliances

inception: 2001

Description

Superstitious Appliances is a Flash artwork featuring a Medieval scene as a clickable interface to explore six poems about the dark mythology of common appliances.

attributed to: Rhizome staff

inception: 2021

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There is a nefarious mythology behind the machines and gadgets lurking about our homescapes. The creations we love for their mood altering, heat making, toast toasting ways, are also the basis for an almost religious reliance on technology. This works seeks to show some small corner of that world.

attributed to: Jason Nelson

inception: 26 March 2002

Legacy descriptive tags

Jason Nelson, Oklahoma, Heaven, Superstitious Appliances

Attribution: Jason Nelson

Abstract, allegory, collider, Conceptual, Narrative, Animation, art world, audio, commercialization, corporate, death, desire, digital, futurism, interact, interface, Internet, language, netart, posthuman, postmodern, resistance, technophobia, Flash, Virtual, Text

Attribution: Rhizome staff

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Descriptive Data

artist: Jason Nelson

title: Superstitious Appliances

inception: 2001

Variant History

outside link

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access URL: http://www.heliozoa.com/superstition.html

inception: 2001

associated with: Jason Nelson