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Planned Obsolescence is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so that it becomes obsolete (i.e., unfashionable, or no longer functional) after a certain period of time. The work seeks to bring attention to the practice of planned obsolescence by reclaiming discarded circuits and repurposing them into unplanned forms of newness.

Trash collage / Exhibition at Aalto / Materiality / Media and ecology

Artists_Reishabh Kailey, Gurden Batra, Serpil Oguz | Waterjet cutting technician_Jie Luo | Advisor_Samir Bhowmik

Anthrobscene

With:
Aalto Medialab
Espoo
2019
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A text about this work, written by me:

Unplanned Newness: Reclaiming circuit boards from objects planned into obsolescence

The circuits in consumer electronic products are processual parts of larger circuits through which electricity flows from power infrastructure into the circuit board causing a bunch of other processes to make it perform functions. Circuit bending involves bending the intended flow of electricity in circuits by the artist who redirects the flow of electrons and creates new processes.

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The exhibition, and text (published in Infragraphy Vol 2, 2019), were an outcome from collective study into materiality of media practices and its socio-ecological implications. The course - Archeology of Media Infrastructures - was taught at Aalto MediaLab by media artist Samir Bhowmik.

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