THE SCREENLESS OFFICE - BRENDAN HOWELL
As part of Futurs non conformes #3
From 01 May to 31 October 2017
Imaginaires synthétiques by Brendan Howell is part of the exhibition “Futurs non-conforme#3” proposed by Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska for the Jeu de Paume virtual space.
The Screenless Office is an artistic operating system for working with media that eschews the use of a raster-based display. The goal of the project is not to produce techniques that can be justified in terms of speed and efficiency. Instead, the office seeks to describe an alternative phenomenology of everyday human interaction with media. The system is constructed using free/libre/open hard- and software components, especially for print, databases, web-scraping and tangible interaction. The work was started during a residency at Constant Variable in Brussels.
BRENDAN HOWELL
Brendan Howell was born in Manchester, CT, USA in 1976. He is an artist and a reluctant engineer who has created various software works and interactive electronic inventions. Currently, he lives in Berlin, Germany. He has done research and led courses at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Merz Akademie, Fachhochschule Potsdam and the Kunsthochschule Berlin, Weißensee.