Techloony November 2016

TECHLOONY Tony Coleing Chloe Watson

26th October - 26th November, 2016

a collaborative body of work by

Tony Coleing & Chloe Watson

Š Utopia Art Sydney

Tony and Chloe are an unlikely team. But both have computers.

And both have the internet. What are the odds? A batch made unleavened. In a revolutionary reinterpretation of mail art, these two collaborators have added an ‘e’.

TECHLOONY /tek-loo-nee/ regional deviations: /thakh-wun-hee/ ; /tesh-lou-nie Noun

a)

Elusive entity first discovered around 2014. Ranges over a large area but only known in Australia. Also referred to as Loonytech.

b)

A past particle A present particle A future particle

Adjective

a)

Having the ability to divide and combine as needed, both organically and electronically.

b)

Like a Techloo™ – new or modern toilet; neoliberal Think Tank.

Etymology: Tech as in head; loon as in luna from the moon, nothing to do with the Moonies, a little short on things upstairs; y - ? Possibly the end of Sydney, where the Techloony was thought to have come into being.

2015-2016, My software has hardened, archival inkjet print on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

2015-2016, Does grey matter?, archival inkjet print on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

2015-2016, But I like your spam filtered, archival inkjet print on canvas, 50 x 50 cm

2015-2016, Cache ‘em all, archival

l inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Your logic is bored, archival i

inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Save as wallpaper, archiv

val inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Parallel porting for dummies, ar

rchival inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Chip wrecked but saved by the Universal Serial Bus, archival inkjet print on canvas, 120 x 80 cm

2015-2016, Input-output failures, archi

ival inkjet print on canvas, 60 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Hotmail is cooling, archiva

al inkjet print on canvas, 60 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Where does your Lagrange point?

?, archival inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Attention - Motherboard not connecting to th

he Mainframe, archival inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, This is not a sunrise, archiv

val inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Where’s the gift shop?, arch

hival inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2015-2016, Searching for the black box, ar

rchival inkjet print on canvas, 80 x 160 cm

In this time of untethered brains and synthetic life, all we have is trust‌ trust us!

But if you choose to trust us we may be able to help. We have found a spot where it all cancels out. So long as the donuts are the right shape, they will stay in the sky where we tell them to be. So long as we remain calm and know our exits, the word should return when we are ready to disembark. However, if the continuum curves any further the marmalade may change colour. So be prepared to metabolise. At the very least, keep our pills at hand – the blue one makes you reach your potential at a frequency synchronized to the circadian second; the red one has only been tested on gold fish. It may prove miraculous.

Luckily, Australian broadband is still mind-numbingly slow, allowing for a sense of authenticity and suspense when sharing files. What has emerged may cause heart burn, indigestion, or your mainframe to implode, but trust us, it’s for the good of inanity.

C.W, 2016

26th October - 26th November, 2016

a collaborative body of work by

Tony Coleing & Chloe Watson

Utopia Art Sydney 2 Danks Street Waterloo NSW 2017 Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900 email: utopiaartsydney@ozemail.com.au www.utopiaartsydney.com.au Š Utopia Art Sydney

Utopia Art Sydney 2 Danks Street Waterloo NSW 2017 Telephone: + 61 2 9699 2900 email: utopiaartsydney@ozemail.com.au www.utopiaartsydney.com.au