Your Metal Brain - Rob Parrish
Your Metal Brain
2007
Film and DV, 5:00
About the work:
Computers absorbing humanity is a classic sci-fi/horror theme. Some of today’s futurists believe computer hegemony is nearly at hand. “Your Metal Brain” - a mix of a 1980’s Japanese horror-art film and a lecture by a leading futurist - is a grim and comic take on the human/machine marriage.
“Your Metal Brain” represents my reaction to reading “The Singularity Is Near” by Ray Kurzweil. Mr. K sees us merging with our computers, eventually becoming pure computational energy. He makes a plausible case that it will happen in our life times and that resistance is futile. Are you scared yet?
About the artist:
Rob Parrish is the DC-based creator of the web series Next To Heaven.
NTH features public domain films re-cut to newly recorded voice-overs.
According to New Tee Vee, NTH fits nicely into that very popular niche
“the comedy of personal misery.”
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