Jefferson Hack - “I liked that Lucy’s work is a playful use of new and obsolete digital technologies that talks about the dark side of our relationship to the media. Her late 20th-century video game aesthetics, which mix recent pop culture with the history of art, shows great skill and craftsmanship as well as a clear critique of the post-digital age we are in. I’m excited to see how her career grows as the inaugural winner of the prize.”
PI/IG
Nokia 5110 phone screens, wires, Raspberry Pi
Where SLOOOG staged transmission, P:IG stages breakdown. Over time, one of the screens ceased to function, leaving a gap in the chain of display. This interruption transforms the work: the loss of both digital information and a physical screen renders the piece partially inoperative, marked by obsolescence. Rather than erasing the work, the failure itself becomes its subject pointing to the fragility of technological icons and the inevitability of their decay.
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