8
technology -
towards a deep ecology of art, architecture and being
research project of goldsmiths, university of london
director: raphael jay adjani
associate: sian ni mhuiri
no.thing
partcipatory internet art
march 2011-march 2012
conception
ajaykumar with gudmundur ingi thorvaldsson
direction
ajaykumar
producer
daniel somerville
a ‘relational being’ web work on the theme of deep ecology
open to any person in the world to participate through art practice and theory.
hosted and presented by u.s. new media gallery turbulence
who have previously commissioned ajaykumar to realise iPak
8 technology a.k.a. ecosophy 8 a.k.a. 8
brings together particular ideas from science, digital technology, philosophy, architecture and art to facilitate sublime works that shed light on our contemporary ecology and being.
this site is both ‘art ‘ and ‘information’ in that it can tell you about what 8 does, at the same time it is created and tended near daily, in a deliberate, ritualised process of re-construction and re-creation, according to mood, season, context,
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-a durational work without duration -
a ‘technology’ of the every day,
in the manner of a daily tea ceremony or tending of a zen garden, for your pleasure...
each page is unique: constructed with minor compositional variation.
spot the deliberate imperfections.
view via the sublime filmic work, version for the internet: naka-ma
connect with 8 technology’s daily twitter
join the evolving discussion at facebook
