Exhibition
Human Factors
12 Sep 2019 – 15 Sep 2019
Regular hours
- Thu, 12 Sep
- 19:00 – 22:30
- Fri, 13 Sep
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sat, 14 Sep
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sun, 15 Sep
- 10:00 – 18:00
Human Factors
Address
- Alexandrinenstraße 7
- Berlin
Berlin - 10969
- Germany
Event map
Human Factors is an exhibition dealing with ergonomics in art, KPI, physical enhancement and cognitive edification. Works are selected based on their intent and their viability in operating beyond just interesting perspectives, be it as objects of knowledge of simply beautiful useless things.
About
Human Factors examines how objects, sound and spoken wordaffect the human body, its behaviour and cognitive functioning in relation to machines and their design. Given contemporary art’s proclivity for critical self-reflection and a longing for the outside, the exhibition disregards art’s faux-intent of politically soberish introspection in favour of assessing works through the concept of key performance indicators (KPI) - can a work of art demonstrate effectively that it achieves its key objectives? Would art be better off returning to formalism? The motivation is to take works based on their intent and display their viability in operating beyond just interesting perspectives, be it as objects of knowledge of simply beautiful useless things.
The works in this exhibition have been selected based on their attempted affect on the user, not based on functionality of ease, but functionality in terms of physical enhancement and cognitive edification.
