Remotist+Control



The world we live in is overloaded with fascinating technologies and updates that are extremely attractive to most. We have made amazing strides injust this past decade that those living a century ago would not even be able to fathom. Our nation immerses itself in a sea of three-dimensional televisions, iPads, and Blackberry cellular phones. But the thing we don’t realize is that nobody can fully multitask. Even those who think they can multitask are just quickly switching there attention between two or more occupations because our brain only allows us to focus on one thing at a time. The assemmblage box, ____Remotist Control__ __, shows a figure who is circuited to a remote control and restrained. At the far end of the box there is a screen behind which viewers will see a pencil, a watch on a lock, and a rubberband that says “organically grown.” The first thing viewers will be amazed by upon seeing this assemblage box ____Remotist Control__ __ is the orientation of the subject and the remote. We have a role reversal where mostly we would imagine a person holding a remote. But in this instance the remote has circuited into the subject and has power over him. Technology’s control over our kind is represented by the wires that enter the man’s brain. The figure is also restrained and blinded by technology. He is not able to see or access the things behind the screen. These represent very rustic concepts- management of time, education, and our connection to things other than technology such as nature. The tape measure represents the extreme measures that technology goes through to maintain its hold on us-its attractiveness, trendiness, and popularity. The title, ____Remotist Control__ __ comes from the idea that the man is in a remote, isolated world because of the control that technology holds over him.
 * Literary Artist Statement of Remotist Control**