Chaos Communication Congress

Deconstructing a Socialist Lawnmower (34x140)

: 29, 2017

Speaker: Darsha Hewitt Obsolete Technologies + Critical Material Studies in Media Art. Darsha Hewitt is a Canadian artist working in new media and sound. She is known for her examinations of communication technology in the domestic sphere and her use of DIY aesthetics and practices as an artistic method. She makes electromechanical sound installations, drawings, audio-visual works, how-to videos and experimental performances with handmade electronics. Through deconstruction and experimentation with failed and obsolete technology, her work demystifies hidden systems within machines as a way to trace-out structures of economy, power and control embedded throughout capitalist culture.