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Matt O'Dell |
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'Industrial Society and Its Future', Unabomber's Cabin, Montana, 1996. |
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Wood, wood stain, metal, modelling details, Video and soundtrack. 36 x 34 x 26.5 cm, 2006 |
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'Industrial Society and Its Future', Unabomber's Cabin, Montana, 1996 is a replica of Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski's, cabin. Kaczynski is a Harvard graduate who withdrew from the world to live in a remote part of Montana. From inside his self-made cabin he constructed mail bombs, with which to target institutions that supported technological advancement. The work consists of a model and a film with a soundtrack. The film depicts the process of making a mail bomb (the instructions were sourced from the Internet). The soundtrack was generated using a computer program to read out the Unabomber's manifesto, titled 'Industrial Society and Its Future'. The work plays with Kaczynski's anti-technological manifesto, using computer programming to present his ideas. The awkwardness of the computer reading, distances the viewer further from his ideas. |
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Matt O'dell was born in 1976 in Bedford. He studied fine art at Wimbledon School of Art (BA) and at Goldsmiths College (MA) in 2002. Upon completing his BA studies his work was included in the exhibition Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud at Camden Arts Centre. In 2000, he was included in A Shot in the Head at Lisson Gallery, and in 2001 was short-listed for the Beck's Futures 2 - Student Film and Video Prize at the ICA, London. His work was selected for New Contemporaries 2002, at the Barbican Gallery, London. O'dell is represented by the Paris based gallery Schleicher+Lange, where he had solo exhibitions in 2005 and 2007. In 2008, O'dell exhibited in Transmediale.08, in Berlin, completed an outdoor sculpture commission in Skien, Norway and was included in the exhibition Ready-Made at Yvon Lambert, Paris. |
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http://www.galerieschleicherlange.com/matrix_engine/content.php |
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