While the famous iFixit teardowns show us circuit boards and lithium ion batteries inside gadgets, artist Mads Peitersen attempts to humanize these gadgets we are all so enamored with in a series of artworks showing internal organs running the whole shebang under the hood.The artist explains his anatomical art:
“The idea is that these gadgets are becoming so advanced and cool today that we almost treat them as if they were alive. In a way users become attached to them:) After you have had your iPhone or your Xbox 360 for a while you slowly begin to see yourself as connected to these brands or gadgets. They almost become an extension of yourself or your hands. It is the feeling that we connect and attach to these machines individually. The metaphor is that a really rather simple and very dead gadget gives people a feeling of being more present, more alive. And they relate in larger degree with these gadgets almost on a par with a pet or a friend!”
Have we become a society too connected to our devices that we have actually started to treat them as an extension of our “Self”? Let us know in the comments.
image courtesy of Mads Peitersen
