The Indispensability of Electricity to Produce an Artwork - C.U.K.T. Collective (The Central Office of Technical Culture) / Piotr Wyrzykowski, aka Peter Style [Poland]
I might say that we are in a state of obsessive fetishism. New technologies introduced into our lives make us feel a kind of narcissistic, narcotic sleep. We do our best to endow our devices with powers far exceeding their actual application, and the narcissistic identification with the power of our machines proves that we are already cyborgs.
The continuous creation of technical culture expands our abilities and allows us to transcend our physical limitations. Without these technological extensions we feel handicapped and unsuitable for the demands of late modernity. This is probably not a pathological approach and it is art that keeps us sane.
We believe that technology is a guarantee of immortality even at the level of hard drive memory. We come alive each time some random user of the global computer system accesses our pages or when standing in front of one of our video projections.
C.U.K.T. aim to point to these issues.
Piotr Wyrzykowski, aka Peter Style
Piotr Wyrzykowski, aka Peter Style, lives and works in Gdansk and Kiev. He is a technology artist and co-founder of the [C.U.K.T]. collective - The Central Office of Technical Culture. He works with video art, CD-ROM, Internet art, multimedia performance and is active as VJ on the club scene in Poland and Germany. The Central Office of Technical Culture [C.U.K.T] was established in 1995 in order to disseminate and distribute technical culture. [C.U.K.T] uses its own stamps and distributes official forms; it exchanges correspondence with other institutions as well as with local and national authorities. Since 1995 [C.U.K.T] has collaborated with a number of institutions, such as schools, local leisure centres, galleries, and museums. It also co-operates with political authorities on local and national level.