art as criticism

A prominent "art and technology" website had a get-together in a NYC bar last night -- apropos of yesterday's post I made these business cards (it took about thirty minutes) and handed them around to a few people. Not so much for self-promotion (most of them know me) as to advance the cause of computer stupidity awareness and the need for a boosterism-counteracting hate zine in the art/tech space where people can vent about computer and phone failure and omnipresent thought control. Left ambiguous was whether the card referred to 15 years' independence on the web or from the web, as it is ordinarily experienced (walking zombie-like around the city streets staring at a glowing slab to see what "friends" are saying at every particular nanosecond).

Thanks to andrej for the webcam shot.

Suggested feature for the "art and technology" websites:
A page where people can talk candidly about how stupid computers, phones, and social media are.
Failures, breakages, outages, poor design, scams, stories about people falling into manholes while reading phones, etc.
The tech sites all have such upbeat, utopian attitudes, and their partnerships with Silicon Valley rent-extractors are ominous.
You have your occasional "broken kindle" jokes but what's needed is a page of pure zine 80s style hatred.
I would contribute.

hat tip cheseball for burning laptop