Assassinated Teknology Exhibited

I had the opportunity, thanks to the encouragement of Spoke Nine and Elray from Potter Belmar Labs, to exhibit for the first time to the public some pieces from my Assassinated Teknology research projekt. There are 6 pieces shown here, keep reading...
Floppy Curtain

The first is the floppy curtain. Featuring 110 5.25" floppy disks suspended from a branch from a mighty maple tree, this piece represents the fine balance between teknology and nature (or something like that). Really what it shows is that you can waste a bunch of time punching holes in floppy disks, creating little metal loops to hold them together and take a branch and make a curtain out of it all. It works well as a window treatment or a fanciful room divider. The piece was also exhibited in Kalamazoo at Symmetry Hair Design in 2002. This one is a real crowd favorite.

Painted Disk Cases
The other pieces are 5 floppy and hard disk drive frames and cases, painted with acrylic paint, also featuring reflective cardboard inserts. I really wanted to show off the internal beauty of the functional design of these cases, so what better way then to paint them and hang them in an art show. There have been many requests for another set, and that is in the works. For the time being though what you see here is all that remains, as each piece pictured here has been grabbed up by hungry art patrons.

The concept for this type of art stems from an idea I had that goes something like this... " Make art out of the debris of everyday life" It is that simple.