Considering Mortal
Robotos Trying To Be Robots Trying To Be Humans
de Santiago Vanegas
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Acerca del libro
Robots are machines trying to be humans. Machines trying to become flesh and soul. The inorganic trying to become organic. The manufactured and designed trying to become spontaneous and unpredictable. Conversely, the embodiment of people becoming their technology.
Machines, computers, robots don’t think, they obey. They are an ideal model to symbolize our current and future relationship with technology, and ourselves. Ultimately it can be the other way around. Humans trying to be robots. Humans striving to be a part of a whole and thus becoming one collective thought.
We are slaves to our technology. Computers, email, our life.com, iPods, S.S. numbers, digital identities, online nicknames, navigation systems, cellphones, etc. Without it, we are nothing. With it, it is all we are. The robot is a machined human. A human that has been so enveloped in its technology that it has mutated into it. It has become the object of its own obsession. In the photographs, the robots display a varying range of distinct human emotions. They convey human struggle. The robots are trapped inside a metallic shell, desperately trying to escape the confines of a digital existence. We (people) are drifting into a digital existence, until eventually (and hopefully) we’ll claw our way out back into an analogous existence.
Características y detalles
- Categoría principal: Fotografía artística
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Características: Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
N.º de páginas: 30 - Fecha de publicación: may. 17, 2012
- Idioma English
- Palabras clave san francisco, night photography, mecha, robot, surrealis, fantasy, panoramic
Acerca del creador
Santiago brings an interesting set of aesthetics to his work. He has navigated in and out of two cultures throughout his life. Born in Philadelphia and then moving back and forth between the United States and his native country of Colombia, eventually staying in Colombia for the next 14 years. Inspired by his mother, a painter, Surrealist art, Latin American magic realism, music, and the world of cinema, Santiago creates work that looks at the dark and the light in life. "I see the world in a way that even to me is a bit strange, but very real. The world is a strange, complicated, and fascinating place. I’m constantly drawing metaphors of how I see the world and its future. My images are about the relationship between reality and perception." His work has been featured in Surface Magazine, WIRED, Flaunt Magazine, Picture Magazine, GRAPHIC Magazine UK, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Lenscratch.