Name | Sarah Buckius

Country | USA

DOB | 1979.08.26

Email | sbuckius@comcast.net

Web | www.sarahbuckius.com

Curriculum Vitae | Click Here

Name | Melanie Manos

Country | USA

DOB | 1964

Email | melmanos@umich.edu

Web | www-personal.umich.edu/~melmanos

Curriculum Vitae | Click Here

Statement | Sarah Buckius & Melanie Manos

101 Ways to Humanize Technology investigates the familiar technological landscape in new, humanized ways. Working as a team, The ManosBuckius Cooperative, we interact physically with technological devices by using them to perform unconventional, bizarre and highly non-productive tasks. The work proposes that everyday technologies might be reinterpreted in absurd, playful, and strange ways, and that the nature of productivity and function be re-examined. We situate our physical bodies in odd arrangements with technological objects, which become unsuspecting cohorts in our improvised activities. The dynamic is hardly one-sided, however: the objects often indicate the nature and rhythm of our movement and inspire mischievous, albeit highly serious, responses from us. The ManosBuckius Cooperative is intensely purposeful in its purposelessness.