Gadgets for the Caveman

by Noa Dolberg noadol.com Project's blog A set of ancient-contemporary gadgets that combine today’s technology, with elements taken from the logic and materiality of the natural ancient world. This is my thesis project for Parsons the New School for Design, MFA Design and Technology, 2013

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The Chinese language edition of Artforum International Magazine.

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Gadget for the caveman 3

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Installation @ thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art 2014 At the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing. 

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thingWorld catalog design by Pentagram 

http://www.pentagram.com/work/#/all/all/newest/3025/

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thingworld: International Triennial of New Media Art 2014 At the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing.

The third edition following the internationally acclaimed Olympic Cultural Project “Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008” and “transLife: International Triennial of New Media Art” which was officially instituted as a triennial of new media art at the National Art Museum of China in 2011.

The catalogue accompanying the exhibition is co-published by The National Art Museum of China and The Liverpool University Press. Essay contributors include Graham Harman, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Mark B.N. Hanson, Sean Cubitt, Timothy Morton, WANG Hui and ZHANG Ga.

Opening: June 10 2014 On View: June 11 – July 7 2014 http://mediartchina.org

Participating Artists:

Aaajiao | CN, Keith Armstrong | AU, & Lawrence English | AU, Cécile Babiole | FR, Ralf Baecker | DE, Christopher Baker | US, Rosa Barba | DE, Catherine Béchard | CA, Julius von Bismarck | DE & Benjamin Maus | DE, Rejane Cantoni & Leonardo Crescenti | BR, Chen Shaoxiong | CN, U-Ram Choe | KR, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen | UK, Jessica Deboer | NL, Noa Dolberg | IL, Zoro Feigl | NL, Ken Feingold | US, Benjamin Gaulon | FR, & Tom Verbruggen | NL, & Gijs Gieskes | NL, Jean-Pierre Gauthier | CA, Petra Gemeinboeck | AT/AU, & Rob Saunders | UK/AU, Michael Joaquin Grey | US, Gustav Hellberg | SE, Hu Jieming | CN, Sabin Hudon | CA, Yunchul Kim | KR, Pe Lang | CH, Margareta Lekic | HR, Marcos Lutyens | UK/US, Chico MacMurtrie | US, Lawrence Malstaf | NO/BE, Wade Marynowsky | AU, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy | US, Ronald van der Meijs | NL, Martin Messier | CA, Erwin Redl | AT/US, Carl-Johan Rosén | SE, Adriana Salazar | CO, Björn Schülke | DE, Karolina Sobecka | US/PL, Saša Spacal | SL, & Mirjan Švagelj | SL & Anil Podgornik | SL, Wolfgang Staehle | DE/US & Jan Gerber | DE, Thomson & Craighead | UK, Jacob Tonski | US, Jonathan Villeneuve | CA, Silvio Vujicic | HR, Wang Chung-Kun | CN/TW, Wang Yuyang | CN, Gail Wight | US, Wu Juehui | CN, Yang Jian | CN, Yang Zhenzhong | CN, Pina Yoldas | TR/DE, Zhang Peili | CN, Zimoun | CH

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camping with Joi Ito

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GADGETS for the CAVEMAN

Parsons MFA Design and Technology Thesis project by Noa Dolberg

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Gadgets for the Caveman installation view ~ Parsons the MFA Design and Technology Thesis Show 2013

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  Gadgets for the Caveman is an installation consisting of three gadgets created while envisioning an encounter of an early human with the world in its current cultural, environmental and technological state. Each gadget rethinks an element or a concept from everyday life and illustrates it for the caveman: a switch, a night lamp, and the idea of time. To assist the Caveman in making connections between today’s tools and his ancient ones, the gadgets are ancient-contemporary, meaning they use the advantages of today’s technology, combined with elements taken from the logic and materiality of the natural world that has dominated human existence for so long.

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  Gadget for the Caveman 1

  Fire dramatically changed man physically, mentally, environmentally, and socially, and was a turning point in the process of our becoming the humans we are today [1]. Knocking two stones against each other like quartz, flint, and other iron-containing hard stone is one of the most ancient techniques to create fire. Gadget for the Caveman 1 uses those two recognizable stones and turns them into a simple switch that lights up a light bulb.