Archive Cinema City 2009.

Daniel Andujar / Street access machine (Mašina za ulični pristup)

descriptions of exhibition works





Programme selection: Wealth of Nations

Products offered by Technologies To The People (TTTP), the company founded by Daniel G. Andújar, range from the Street Access Machine® over the Recovery Card® and Internet Street Access Machine® to the Personal Folkcomputer®. All of these (fictitious) products and technologies aim to allow the socially underprivileged to participate in the emergent information society. While the Internet Street Access Machine® promises »access for all«, the Street Access Machine® and Recovery Card® enables beggars to accept payment by credit card. The project unmasks the belief, propagated by those who manufacture the associated products (and by "Californian ideology"*), that a democratizing potential is inherent to technology. The world shown by TTTP on its posters and leaflets is neither more just thanks to the deployment of these new technologies, nor is it accessible to all - despite the claims made by providers of telecommunications applications. Even if they use the latest

info-society tools, beggars remain beggars, the socially marginalized remain socially marginalized. Technologies tend to reinforce, rather than alter, social structures. When the project was presented in Hamburg in 1996, a (bona fide) mail was received from Apple, announcing the company's interest in the (fictitious) product range of TTTP.**

Biographies of the artists and the groups:

Daniel Garcia Andújar (Almoradí, España, 1966) works under the banner of Technologies To The People (TTTP), exploring virtuality, authenticity, copyright, sponsorship, media as well as power as new technology, and asking who has the access to it to spread it across the globe. Instead of surrendering to the fetish-like quality of new technologies, TTTP focuses on the battlegrounds that are emerging. Instead of complete rejection, TTTP has a pragmatic functionality when considering what could happen, and our possibilities for action in a society absorbed in rapid fundamental change. The friction in the work of TTTP lies in the apparent freedom of the Internet, the knowledge it holds, and who actually owns or distributes this knowledge as a means of developing power.


 

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