Japanese artist shimabuku documented the history of mankind, comparing ancient tools with modern instruments to create a kind of ‘museum’ of daily life at the venice art biennale 2017. It was presented as part of ‘viva arte viva’ curated by christine macel.
shimabuku had shown an installation video titled ‘Sharpening a Macbook Air’, which is built on his fascination with human culture.
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Shimabuku turns a mac book air into functional axe.
Shimabuku shows that the your new digital instrument a seemingly ancient tool.
See how the edge looks sharpened. It looks like a Roman blade.
“Shimabuku scraping the end of a laptop against a hard stone by hand. as the computer’s surface meets the rock, it gradually chisels away at its blunt surface, eventually rendering it blade-like.”
