About the Work
Eric Wielosinski's Smart Child is an interactive electronic installation of an enhanced child -- a prototype for the future of altered life. Upon entering the gallery space, the viewer is invited by the Smart Child to play with him, interact, talk, or at least be present to listen as he boasts about his enhancements and perfections. The Smart Child is very impressionable and can grow very attached (if not dependent) on you, his new playmate.
About the Artist
Eric Wielosinski is an Interactive Design and Visual Communication
Instructor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and The
American Academy of Art. He has been exhibited on-line and for his
installation work using photography, digital video and new media
interactive technologies. He has produced several internationally
distributed CDROMS, poster and sticker products as way of distributing
his work and ideas. Eric has been active in the design community as an
Interactive Designer and Director of Web and Technology to web based
multimedia firms in Chicago. He has exhibited in such spaces as the
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, along with several universities,
colleges and has been funded by the Chicago Contemporary Arts Council.
Eric has also collaborated with Chicago based techno-performance groups and
activist intervention groups.
www.muzzle.org/smartchild [website]
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