About Low Tech

For the past two years I have co-curated with the exhibition portion of the Electronics Faire with Ollie Goss. For more information about electronics faire, please visit the official electronics faire website.

There’s tension in the premise of a Low Tech exhibition. By name low tech inverts the value system commonly ascribed to technology away from production method, service, and commodity towards something else. This inversion can be a framework, a feeling, a number, and all else that exists in the shared fantasy in which technology is no longer tethered to structural violence. This fantasy is ambivalent to technological advancement; it sutures time by recovering that which was lost, forgotten, and left behind by positioning them as something relevant. Low Tech is not a consequence but rather a point of inquiry.

The exhibition assembles work from fourteen artists working in a variety of media. Many works are made from recovered materials, such as wood thrown away during industrial elevator construction, unaccounted data from modern image processing, image transfer negatives, and the electronics inside of a broken insulin pump. Others display a panoply of technological methods and outcomes such as antique electronic phones, handmade electronic instruments, bone conduction, hand-altered film for motion pictures, and low powered devices. The curation of pieces in the show is an offering to indulge in the tension held by Low Tech and maybe even join in our fantasy.

With work from: Catia Colagioia, Charlie Manion, David Rios, Francesca Lally, Gregory Kramer, Hannah Tardie, Jamison Mead, Jazmyn Crosby, Kelly Chen + Caleb Chase, Logan Crompton, Maddie Brucker, Noah Kernis, Ollie Goss, Cristhian Varela and Rachael Henson.