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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Made to Malfunction
Simon Whetham
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“Made to Malfunction”
Salvaged Technology, Aluminium, Acrylic
“Made to Malfunction” refers to the concept of planned obsolescence, a feature of all consumer products. They are designed to have a limited lifespan, then fail, forcing consumers to replace or ‘upgrade’. In my work I am interested in energies and systems that have some unpredictable element, such as natural forces and malfunctioning devices — non-regular, non- musical rhythms. I have created a collection of sound making devices from parts of discarded electronic products. Each device is presented in its own display case, to be (re-)considered an object of great value or interest.
“Made to Malfunction” was created with full support from the Creators-in-Lab residency 2018 with Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
Exhibitions:
Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 14th-23rd December 2018
Openarts Space MERGE?, Busan, South Korea, 12th-21st February 2019
In Vitrø, LOXOSConcept, Matera, Italy, 4th-29th September 2019
Electric Spring, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 19th-22nd February 2020
Audiograft Festival, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, 17th-22nd March 2020
Salvaged Technology, Aluminium, Acrylic
“Made to Malfunction” refers to the concept of planned obsolescence, a feature of all consumer products. They are designed to have a limited lifespan, then fail, forcing consumers to replace or ‘upgrade’. In my work I am interested in energies and systems that have some unpredictable element, such as natural forces and malfunctioning devices — non-regular, non- musical rhythms. I have created a collection of sound making devices from parts of discarded electronic products. Each device is presented in its own display case, to be (re-)considered an object of great value or interest.
“Made to Malfunction” was created with full support from the Creators-in-Lab residency 2018 with Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
Exhibitions:
Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, 14th-23rd December 2018
Openarts Space MERGE?, Busan, South Korea, 12th-21st February 2019
In Vitrø, LOXOSConcept, Matera, Italy, 4th-29th September 2019
Electric Spring, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 19th-22nd February 2020
Audiograft Festival, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, 17th-22nd March 2020