Opening tonight in Brooklyn — an art exhibit based on obsolete Apple technology that examines the “fetishizing” of products that are soon discarded.
The installations include a mechanical interpretation of Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford commencement speech, and a doormat with Bill Gates’ face on it.
See the video and several pix after the jump.
Running through mid-March, the Programmed show features installations made with discarded Apple products — products that were once drooled over.
“The artwork in this show invites a discussion on recycling, the history of these items, where they come from and what they have been replaced by,” say the show’s curators. They also want people to think about “the fetishizing of these electronics that are then discarded.”
The Programmed show features artwork by eight Brooklyn artists. It’s the brainchild of Jeff Graber, CMO (Chief Macintosh Officer) at The Mac Support Store, Brooklyn’s first Apple-authorized repair shop, which is hosting the installations.
As well as hosting, the Mac Support Store is supplying all the obsolete electronics.
“The show was inspired by the original Mac Fish Tank,” says Graber. A fish tank made from an old PowerMac Cube is featured in the show’s poster.
The store is a big believer in recycling. It provides free recycling and is a member of New York City’s Retailer Take-Back Program.
The Programmed show is open until March 13, 2010. The opening reception will be held on January 15, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and is open to the public.
The Mac Support Store is located at 168 7th Street in Brooklyn. The store is open Monday thru Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The store is closed on Sundays.
Here’s a YouTube movie of Noah Fischer’s installation, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, a multimedia interpretation of Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpUm4dnOKaY&feature=player_embedded
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
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