Auto Italia (Marleen Boschen, Kate Cooper, Marianne Forrest)

Meet Z, 2014

The work Meet Z simulates what a personal guide might look like in the future. On an online platform, the ‘customer’ – you – continually scrolls down to receive services ranging from productivity consultancy to creative collaborating. With a clear hint of irony, Auto Italia’s description of the work resembles an advertised offer for what could be a yoga or meditation-orientated personal trainer.
Echoing both transhumanist patterns and glitch aesthetics, the work achieves merging the highest technological developments to apparent internal flaws. As such, it creates an unsettling impression of in-betweenness; between a critical stance and a real futurist commercial potential.

Artwork: http://autoitaliasoutheast.org/meetz
Artist: http://autoitaliasoutheast.org