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Indepth Arts News: "Ian Haig: Brain Tumour Helmet with Microwaves" 2002-11-22 until 2002-12-19 Centre for Contemporary Photography Fitzroy, VI, AU
'Brain tumor helmet with microwaves' explores the idea of contemporary body modification and post-human body mutation via brain tumors; in a perverse technological scenario that sees brain tumors and their effect on the brain as an unavoidable side effect of our everyday high exposure to microwave technologies. Current discourses in contemporary New Media Arts, on themes of the body, often view the body as an abstract entity, removed from the more immediate, banal and everyday engagement that our bodies have with technology, eg: the relationship we have with mobile phones on a daily basis.
Underpinning this new project is a wry commentary on the impact of microwave technologies, together with the accoutrements of classic sci-fi horror and the very real fear of the unknown effects of everyday technologies on our bodies. The objective of the work does not predictably seek to highlight the evils of microwave technologies in society, such as mobile phones. But to engage notions of technology, which is potentially transforming and modifying the structure of our bodies on a daily basis, in this case perversely through the brain tumor, as a catalyst of human/machine evolution/devolution.
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