The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that i… - Johannes Grenzfurthner
" "The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.
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About Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner (born June 13, 1975, in Vienna) is an Austrian artist, author, director, researcher. He founded the art and theory group monochrom.
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