Feb 142012
The Tenderloin
Ellis and Jones
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This triptych is by The Luggage Store.
According to their website:
“…three new murals depicting humans and its relationship with the increasingly robotized culture. It is about living in a time when science is searching for ways to create human traits in robots but in the meantime with all the excess of technology we are losing some of our human senses.
It is also touching the subject of human diversity and its rights to belong to a society or being alienated by it. It all intertwines and also questioning; who are aliens, who are humans, and who decides where you belong and what you are?”
I couldn’t agree more.
T.W. Five’s website has a wonderful layout of the work in progress.
I’ve read some articles on robotology…or whatever it’s called. Kinda scary. The line is being blurred between what is human and what is not…We see that already with “smart” phones where a voice answers questions you’ve posed in a very human manner sometimes even suggesting questions you haven’t asked.
There are some issues in this country which need our money and attention. This is just one of many. Contraception and a woman’s right to choose, however, are not among them!
I like very much this thought-provoking triptich!
Yep, our world is changing faster and faster. Computers are getting as smart as people…lots of ethical questions arise.
The Tenderloin seems to have changed quite a bit since I was a kid with lots more artwork. Humans are using technology to communicate with each other more and more as opposed to meeting face to face.
On the radio today they were talking about having a robot for a mate instead of a human – no arguments etc. Strange times!
I love the thought behind this! The tenderloin is so fascinating!
Being social media fatigued, i can relate so much to this line – with all the excess of technology we are losing some of our human senses.