GENOMICON

Exhibit 1:

Words turned into jewellery, that looks like ectoplasm and has no level of artistic or poetic resonance with the meaning being communicated whatsoever:

But you never know. Someone else might (actually, doubtless will) see something that I don’t. The unbelievable guff that the voice-over talks has got to be worth something on it’s own… I wonder if the voice over could be turned into a great big one… or one with really small links. Recursive then see? Art. Art’s always recursive. Just when you’ve got it all figured out, it turns into a mirror that bites you on the arse.

Exhibit 2:

Using swarm-bots to make one step forward, and one step back:

For virtual reality apparently… so you can walk forever on the spot. VR is another “are-we-there-yet” technology. It still isn’t as good as Lawnmower Man said it would be back in the 80s – where it was like being GOD, but with a jetpack

Finally, Exhibit 3:

Which is an entire computer put into a wall plug.

This is cool (it runs linux)… but there’s something nagging in the back of my mind that doesn’t quite ring true… it seems like a half-way house between a central computer controlling everything and computers IN everything. It seems slightly weird to achieve such a miracle of portability, then design it so that it can’t be moved without unplugging it. I mean fair enough – a lot of computers don’t ever get shifted about… but still…

… aaaaanddd… even more finally… Exibit 4:

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Microsoft Surface.

Great, but what’s it for? Come to that, what’s Microsoft for?