{"id":28039,"date":"2025-12-23T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/?post_type=mt_event&#038;p=28039"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:27:01","slug":"fine-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"mt_event","link":"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/en\/events\/fine-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":28040,"template":"","event_cat":[152],"acf":{"event_type":"exhibition","subtitle":"","logo":null,"event_custom_toptix_link":"","duration":"10\/09\/2014 - 17\/01\/2015","video":"","start_date":null,"price":"","location":"","ages":"","people":"","hosts":"","dates_text":"","single_page_text":"","bottom_text":"As abstract technology, and its physical presence in machines and devices, becomes increasingly more complex and sophisticated, it becomes progressively more incomprehensible to us. Technology is what we use to touch the world and move in it \u2013 what we use to see, hear, and feel. However, the more accessible and influential technology becomes, the more hidden from our eyes its operating principles become. In the past we were able to understand the operating principles of machines and devices, but if we were to open up a contemporary technological device and examine its innards, it is reasonable to assume that we would not be able to identify the parts or know their function.\r\n\r\nFine Mechanics is the first step in long-term process, the essence of which is ongoing engagement with different practices and approaches to using technology in art. The exhibition also marks the establishment of a group of artists who will operate in a creative and research setting in the FabLab, and strive to conduct critical-artistic thinking and creative processes vis-\u00e0-vis technology. The artists participating in the exhibition have been invited to work as a group and delve into questions and subjects associated with the convergence of three domains \u2013 art, society, and technology \u2013 and thus facilitate a critical-civic discourse on technology and its influences through the prism of art.\r\n\r\nThe works presented in the exhibition reveal the different approaches currently characterizing the members of the group. They present the different starting points for the processes we hope will take place within the group, and also sketch the outlines of the art-machine relationship:\r\n\r\nMovement &gt; Machines have movement. This is perhaps their most prominent characteristic. They can sometimes move around a space, but even more so, something moves inside them \u2013 cogwheels, rubber rings, switches. Movement also takes place in the body of a machine, even though we do not see it. A machine\u2019s movement is always alien in the world. It is not the movement of a living body, and it is not the movement of nature. It is an engineered movement, movement that has been organized by human beings, even if only few can explain how. It is movement that in the main creates possibility or ability in the world: the possibility of moving from place to place, of building and destroying, of preserving or terminating life. At the same time, it also creates meaning for the world, relationships between humans, and between humans and the world, and therein lies its fascination.\r\n\r\nSeduction &gt; Machines hold unendurable temptation for human beings. They are the promise of coming closer to the sun, of living forever.\r\n\r\nSound &gt; The sound of a machine is a byproduct of its operation and movement. This sound, too, has already become established as tradition. A clicking sound accompanies taking pictures with cellular devices as well, and a vehicle without the sound of an engine is suspicious and strange to us. The sound of a machine is a language.\r\n\r\nFuturism &gt; The new futurism is not satisfied with a description of life in the present and of an imagined and utopian future; it uses technological components and ideas as some of the physical tools and materials of the artistic work itself, and subjugates them in order to examine dystopian edges and possibilities.\r\n\r\nCode &gt; Every machine has an operating code embedded within it. In a simple machine, the code is the choreography of possible movements; in a complex machine, it is the digital layer spreading throughout and along the flesh and skin of the machine. This code can also malfunction, change, tear, and mix. A machine that \u201cgoes out of control\u201d, goes out of the control of the code. It breaks free from the unnatural limitations of the mechanism, and draws closer to the elemental nature of the material. \u201cCode\u201d also serves as a metaphor for the operation of other systems, not necessarily machines. Social or political systems, for instance, operate in accordance with a particular operating code. Is Zionism the code of Israeli society?\r\n\r\nFascination &gt; The difficulty of understanding technology, coupled with the meaning machines create in the world, creates fascination. Technology and machine are divine creations \u2013 at least until the next new machine.\r\n\r\nPolitics &gt; The technological image erases political relations, and invites in its place a futuristic utopia or dystopia with human vs. machine at their center. This imagined human is waging a fighting retreat against the machine; he no longer has time for national conflicts. This kind of future is not of this world.\r\n\r\nIsrael &gt; Startup nation, the Jewish brain, thinking outside the box. These are but a few of the titles and labels Israeli society likes to boast with regard to its technological capabilities. Another of the stories we like to tell about ourselves. In fact, Israel\u2019s number one export is stories. Narratives. Technology is a wonderful story because it creates the illusion of geographic, political, and cultural isolation. Contemporary virtual reality technologies facilitate this kind of isolation. They also enable the illusion of connections with other geographies far away from here, west of here. Technology is connected to the Israeli enterprise of occupation and expropriation, not only because it enables military and economic superiority, but especially because it allows us to tell ourselves more stories that are disconnected from context and reality.\r\n\r\nLab &gt; Art is a critical laboratory for technology. The artist scientist.\r\n\r\nMachine &gt; From the simple device, through the robot, to the web. The machine was created as a means and an extension by and for human beings. But the fate of the machine is deviating from the fate designated for it by humans.\r\n\r\nTechnology &gt; Technology is a movement of infinite expansion and multiplication. It is present as progress even if and when its results are destructive. When it goes hand in hand with miniaturization trends and the digital space, it expands to new and endless dimensions. Since progress is physical and material, it leaves in its wake a trail of machine scraps \u2013 machines that at every moment become waste when they are supplanted by \u201cthe new and the good\u201d. Technology has no movement other than intensification and amplification; other movement will only be possible in a future moment of the destruction and annihilation of the world as we know it.\r\n\r\nManmachine &gt; The next human being.\r\n\r\nInnovation &gt; Innovation and technology are intertwined, but not every technological development is innovation. Moreover, we tend to ascribe to technology the potential to create cultural and social change \u2013 even revolutions \u2013 even though its ability to do so depends on how society perceives it, and on its ability to persuade a sufficiently large number of people to use it. Either way, the key question regarding technology\u2019s revolutionary potential does not concern the use made of it, but the identity of those controlling it. To understand if technology can create innovation, we need to go beyond the familiar questions of \u201chow does it work?\u201d or \u201cwhat does it do?\u201d, and start asking \u201cwhose is it?\u201d, or \u201cwho does it serve?\u201d\r\n\r\nA variety of workshops and presentations by artists and experts will take place during the exhibition as part of the process of examining the different relationships formed between art and technology.\u00a0These events will be open to the general public. Details are available at the Israeli Center for Digital Art website.\r\n\r\nEyal Danon, Udi Edelman","bottom_gallery":null,"list_title":"","list":null,"platform_hours_title":"","platform_hours_content":"","platform_info_title":"","platform_info_phone":"","platform_info_cell":"","platform_info_email":"","platform_credits_title":"","platform_credits_subtitle":"","platform_credits_icons":null,"posts_query":"latest","posts":null,"select_term_id":null,"Code":"","Name":"","ID":"","BriefText":"","DetailText":"","ReviewUrl":"","TrailerUrl":"","DirectLink":"","SummarySaleStatus":"","LongMinutes":"","BreakMinutes":"","MediumImageUrl":"","SmallImageUrl":"","LargeImageUrl":"","ShowTypeId":"","RecommendedForSlideShowInGenres":"","ShowTypeName":"","EventDate":"","FormattedDate":"","ActualEventDate":"","StartSaleFrom":"","EndSaleAt":"","LastUpdate":"","SaleStatus":"","SoldOut":"","IsFutureSaleForDisplay":"","OwnerId":"","OwnerName":"","HallName":"","HallGuid":"","smallimage":null,"mediumimage":null,"largeimage":null,"event_display_dates":null,"gallery":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fine Mechanics &#8226; 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