In Commemoration of the 2023 Sheraton-Intel Merger
by Niels Gercama
Description:
Mirror installations, AI generated logo, 3D printed objects and hand made clay form.
I met Niels last year at the street in Berlin and was the first friend that I made in the city. The day we met he invited me to join an exhibition, months later I invited him to join mine.
“There exists a block in the imagination of futures, be it because of anti utopianism after the cold war, climate anxiety or because Punk is dead. Now that the H-bomb has waned from public discourse, life in the future has become unimaginable. In an answer to this we are reliving this 50s Shell-o-Rama idea of science fiction, with social commentary about the present projected into a technological future. However, it is known that we have washing machines, lithium mines, LHS, drone strikes, that the LAPD uses Boston Dynamic dogs and Threads. There is big money in living in the future while speculating on the further future. In Commemoration of the 2023 Sheraton-Intel Merger attempts to find refuge as a concurrent fiction in a time that may-as-well be, to think about the present from the present while living in the future which ruminates on the further future:
Presented here are the suitable outlines for a memorandum to be placed on a plaque, to be handed to investors, the board, major shareholders, the director of the M&A consultancy, their partner, the tax write-off charity, the bank’s representative. A plaque outside of planned obsolescence, a moment of mutual interest and successful financial interaction etched in glass and steel. They are commonly called Tombstones or Deal Toys - in commemoration of the 2023 Sheraton-Intel Merger. A merger which takes place now in a concurrent fiction, some may-as-well time with three may-as-well Deal Toys. A unique collectable set of OTPPs (One-Time Password Pearls); a lucite soap dispenser knock-off; The New Age (f. MasterCard).” Niels Gercama
Mirror installations, AI generated logo, 3D printed objects and hand made clay form.
I met Niels last year at the street in Berlin and was the first friend that I made in the city. The day we met he invited me to join an exhibition, months later I invited him to join mine.
“There exists a block in the imagination of futures, be it because of anti utopianism after the cold war, climate anxiety or because Punk is dead. Now that the H-bomb has waned from public discourse, life in the future has become unimaginable. In an answer to this we are reliving this 50s Shell-o-Rama idea of science fiction, with social commentary about the present projected into a technological future. However, it is known that we have washing machines, lithium mines, LHS, drone strikes, that the LAPD uses Boston Dynamic dogs and Threads. There is big money in living in the future while speculating on the further future. In Commemoration of the 2023 Sheraton-Intel Merger attempts to find refuge as a concurrent fiction in a time that may-as-well be, to think about the present from the present while living in the future which ruminates on the further future:
Presented here are the suitable outlines for a memorandum to be placed on a plaque, to be handed to investors, the board, major shareholders, the director of the M&A consultancy, their partner, the tax write-off charity, the bank’s representative. A plaque outside of planned obsolescence, a moment of mutual interest and successful financial interaction etched in glass and steel. They are commonly called Tombstones or Deal Toys - in commemoration of the 2023 Sheraton-Intel Merger. A merger which takes place now in a concurrent fiction, some may-as-well time with three may-as-well Deal Toys. A unique collectable set of OTPPs (One-Time Password Pearls); a lucite soap dispenser knock-off; The New Age (f. MasterCard).” Niels Gercama