As part of my Msc in Multimedia Systems I created this installation along with four team mates. They were Alex Synge, Alex Hillel, Tarig Elomari and Ciaran Hickey.
PlaySkip was an installation consisting of mounds of obsolete technology, old record players, monitors, train sets, flowers, rocks, beads, seashells, currency and other objects. Almost all of the content of the installation was collected for free using services such as Freecycle, dug out of skips, borrowed or saved from being discarded.
People were invited to enjoy the content and interact with parts in order to control visuals on the monitors.
The concept is based on the notion that technological design is making objects increasingly less fathomable to people. Where a broken cassette tape might have been fixed by a little finger twisting the tape spool, when an ipod is not working you send it away in a van to be fixed and returned to you. This installation is meant as a suggestion that systems underlie everything that we encounter, both natural and man made, and it is our responsibility to think about them. If technology design continues to so neatly package the objects we use, will we accept their operation as naturally as we do the systems that cause plants to grow, or planets to rotate?
