The Cute Machine

Australia, 1997

Artwork

The Cute Machine is an exploration into the morphology of cute characterisation and iconography and its relationship to the biological world, seeking to analyse this ‘Cute ideal’ by correlating it with the Zoological process known as Neoteny

The CD contains two sections that had already been exhibited as installations (Sorry! and Activity Station) but were then adapted to a screen version. The remaining sections elaborate on the themes of cute iconography and its analysis.

The Cute Machine proposes an environment where cute iconography and user friendliness have rampantly accelerated, and reduced computer interface design to the look and sophistication of an infant toy, while also taking the premise, Cute = young to the extreme, where the ‘Cutest’, becomes an abstracted mutation of the original sentiment.

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Credits

creator

Martine Corompt

production company

Australian Film Commission

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1997

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Group of items

Experimenta

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1001948

Language

English

Audience classification

unclassified

Subject category

Digital Art

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

CD-R; Master

CD ROM; Copy

CD ROM; Exhibition Copy

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