Press Release > E-HUMAN
Luca Curci and Ioannis Mexis are sending out a video message, to everybody who thinks hey're walking some line that's the border between Reason and Feeling. The video came out of their combined thoughts on how daily life, and our essence, are being changed by technology.
Their video, "E-HUMAN", uses machine (technology) to express feeling (the human sense). Their conclusion is that the machine is still and always will be often an indispensable tool, and that man is and always will be the motor running this machine.
And if in some distant future machines are able (as one hopes) to think and act, they will ALWAYS AND ONLY represent he who thought them up, just as a mirror ALWAYS AND ONLY reflects our image. "So often we ask why man tries to create a being like himself...maybe to overcome the fear that he was created by a superior being whose origin he doesn't know?...or to feel like a creator himself, even if it's a creator that's nothing but a tangle of electric wires and microchips? Let's not forget. We are made of feeling, we are special psychophysical states, states no one can duplicate."
The video (14.52 minutes | interactive cd-rom | limited edition of 200 numbered copies) will tour a series of American cities, organized in collaboration with a New York record company. It will start in New York (June, 2002) and will arrive in Italy in August and show at the Pino Pascali Gallery (Polignano a Mare, Bari) in the international contemporary art exhibition, ArtExpo 2002 (August 9th thru 25th, 2002).
For more information: www.lucacurci.com/e_human
To write directly to the creators of the video E-HUMAN or get a copy:
Luca Curci lucacurci@lucacurci.com
Telephone: +39 338 7574098
Ioannis Mexis ioannis@mexis.it
Telephone: +39 347 1746324
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