FINA-S 300 Video Art Student Work

TechnoShaman

Television Sculpture
by Sky Santiago


TechnoShaman sits at The Crossroads and walks between worlds.

TechnoShaman could be a power, a person, a map, a means of travel. TechnoShaman is the visionary and historian, wearing the garb of mediums past and present--- taking us on a journey that is an investigation of the unknown.

The piece is meditative and signal oriented. Materials of circuit boards, components, cables, electrical wiring, cassette tapes, filmstrips, floppy’s and dvd’s were used to illustrate the demystification of technology. The video is a feedback loop and is representative of human consciousness. The television as the TechnoShaman’s head, is a pro-active art element, taking the place of its commonly accepted use as a device of corporate broadcast and passive receptivity.

We live in the information age of DIY, hacker culture, and social media engagement, as many seek solutions to world problems and to create works that speak to the masses. With these tools we play, experiment, teach, learn, expand, and can perhaps heal our world. We are “media-minded” digital natives in a grassroots, open-source playing field. We are disassembling the past and repurposing it for the next stage in our human evolution.