"The definition of pornography is widening, there is more available than ever before and it is easily accessed. It has become a sub-obsession facilitated by the acceleration of technology within the last 50 years. Our project The Porno Machine is used as a metaphor of contemporary society and its pornographic fixation. It seeks to utilize a bathroom at the Aalborg University in Copenhagen, a logical place for our work for the analogies of any public restroom with a wider context of both technology and pornography. It is a transient space that only appears to be unaffected by the arrival of advanced technologies, a place that seams depersonalized although for many it serves to express most intimate needs and instincts, long in use for sex, bathroom cruising, use of illegal substances. The restroom was once managed by a bathroom attendant whose mandate was to suppress all these unauthorized actions, until the technologies eliminated this profession which in our concepts makes them a 'gentle reminder'; of job destruction. For the EVA Conference in Copenhagen, we intend to present an ephemeral version of the prototype, which will be displayed only for 15 minutes each day of the conference, at the three different sites of the Aalborg University in Copenhagen. The 15 minute multimedia piece will be showcased on Tuesday 15.05. 2018 at 19:20 in the bathroom near the Foyer area. On Wednesday 16.05.2018 and Thursday 17.05.2018 the event will be held at noon at unnamed locations within the Aalborg University building."
Biography
Graham King graduated with an undergraduate degree in screenwriting from Depaul University in Chicago. Before that he studied theatre at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts in Hartford Connecticut. He regularly watches films and pornography and plays (arguably) too many video games.
Clio Flego studied at IUAV University in Venice and received a graduate degree in Visual and Performing Arts. She cooperated with cultural institutions for international festivals and events. She works as video maker, activist and cultural manager.
Boris Abramovic is cultural manager and artist from Montenegro. He graduated in Arts and Design from the University of Montenegro. He curated and exhibited internationally, managed cultural projects in formal and informal settings, designed and implemented initiatives focused on culture, intercultural dialogues, policies, and youth.