Leisure Machines

In Leisure Machines, the hot tub is treated as an object embedded in consumer culture and domestic technologies. The pool, spa and hot tub industry positions the hot tub as a media experience where heat, water, and stimuli shape cognitive and sensory experiences that take place in a built environment that includes decking, screens, adjustable jets, lighting, temperature controls, multimedia systems, and expanded social environments such as seating and bars. In this first body of works, this technological and architectural environment is recalibrated by the custom AI model. The resulting objects and settings seem both familiar and unfamiliar, extending into separate but strangely adjacent realms such as fountains, furniture, or satellites. The series invites these fluid readings as part of the weird North American material cultures that shape our experience of the social world and the media landscape.

Printed on Hahnemühle German Etching 310 gsm
17 x 22 inches

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27 × Tub
36 × Deck

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