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HACKWARE / HCKWR /
Hackintosh sculpture created & developed as a series of updates akin to software releases.
The sculptures consist of end-of-life computers with modified hardware architecture injected with mineral material links.
Mechanical apps that use mankind’s newest tools for mankind’s oldest tasks.
CRATER ALPHA (The resemblance between the stars & the sky in which they shine, between plants & the earth, between diamonds & the rocks in which they are buried, between sense organs & the face they animate, between skin moles & the body of which they are the secret marks) [HW1.0], 2023
Half of a iron-nickel meteorite from Sikhote-Alin, laboratory glass, 6000- series aluminum (12x 24” iMac), cast aluminum & stainless steel hardware
192 x 192 x 45 cm (64 x 64 x 15 in)
Title from Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things 1966
CRATER OMEGA (The emulation across space in which each plant is a terrestrial star looking up at the sky & each star is a celestial plant looking back down upon their terrestrial kin) [HW1.1], 2023
sanded & polished 6000-series aluminum (21” iMac Retina display frame), upset aluminum rivet (iMac 27” stand) & enough energy to run the computer for approx. 10 hours [(35 grams of mineral coal (anthracite)]
196 x 196 x 45 cm (76 x 76 x 18 in)
Title from Oswald Crollius’ Treatise on Signatures 1624
Bug Out System (in case SHTF during gallery hours) [HW0.9], 2023
Anthracite (mineral coal), 6000-series aluminum (2x Mac Pro + 2x Power Mac G5), clear plastic air deflector doors, cargo lashing straps, padlocks,a waterproof dry bag (containing a First Aid Kit, a blank iPhone 12 Mini, a compass, a foil blanket, flashlight, 4 AAA-batteries, a 3600 mAh batterybank, a Swiss Army Knife, an unopened Ledger Nano S crypto hardware wallet, 2 USB-drives, EarPods with a Lighting-connector, earphones with a 3,5mm audiojack, 55 euros in cash, a lighter, matches, a blank notebook, a pen, a permanent marker, a foldable measuring stick, a book [Unelmat Paremmasta Maailmasta (Dreams of a Better World) by Pentti Linkola], a rubber band, a clothing pin, a hair pin, a Nokia carabiner with short cargo strap, ear plugs, a pop-it stress toy, 50 cm of metal chain, a deck of playing cards, a reflector, a piece of soap, a toothbrush & toothpaste, a towel, a USB-A charger, a USB-C charger, a knife, a scalpel, gloves, a cap, a T-shirt, a scarf, a pair of socks, a pair of woolly socks & a pair of Oakley sunglasses) & an IKEA bag (containing 5L of potable water, 3 cans of food, a 3M respirator, duct tape, cable ties & a nylon rope)
287 x 102 x 47,5 cm (113 x 40 x 19 in)
Cradle (Ideas sneered by a generation / ideas for which fathers / silent / under the stones) [HW0.8], 2023
Granite & 6000-series aluminum (3x 27” iMac + 7x 24” iMac display frames)
65 x 59 x 45 cm (26 x 23 x 18 in)
Title’s poem by Arvo Turtiainen (1904-1980)
Get Yours While Supplies Last! (HW0.7), 2023
6 kg (13 lbs) of anthracite (mineral coal), handmade aluminum rivets, 6000-series aluminum (2x 21” iMac Retina display frame) & stainless steel hardware
38 x 53 x 8,5 cm (15 x 21 x 3 in)
Salkku/Briefcase (Time to pack up) [HW0.6], 2023
6000-series aluminum (2x 13” MacBook Pro), granite & stainless steel hardware
36,5 x 93 x 14 cm (14 x 37 x 6 in)
Interlocked (Excalibur) [HW0.5], 2023
6000-series aluminum (13” MacBook Pro), terrazzo slab foot of a weighing table, computer lock, copper & stainless steel plates
68 x 90 x 68 cm (27 x 35 x 27 in)
Not Enough Disc Space [HW0.4], 2023
Diamond cutting wheel, 6000-series aluminum & almost complete desktop computer (24” iMac) with laser-engraving on the inside of the front glass
85,5 x 45,5 x 7 cm (34 x 18 x 3 in)
Oma maa mansikka / Own Land Strawberry [HW0.3], 2023
Outokumpu ore sample sets featuring various raw minerals and refined concentrates & 6000-series aluminum (3x iMac Mini)
20 x 20 x 12 cm ea. (8 x 8 x 5 in ea.)
Petroglyph [HW0.2], 2022
Schorl mineral (cont. iron, silicon & aluminum), Fuchsite mineral (cont. lithium, chromium & aluminum), 6000-series aluminum (Power Mac G5 CPU-covers + 27” iMac stand + iMac display frame’s interior brackets) & stainless steel hardware
22 x 20 x 27 cm (9 x 8 x 10 in)
You’ve looked at me countless times but you have never seen yourself in me (Hackware 0.1), 2022
sanded & polished 6000-series aluminum (21” iMac Retina display frame), upset aluminum rivet (iMac 27” stand) & enough energy to run the computer for approx. 10 hours [(37 grams of mineral coal (anthracite)]
53 x 36 x 32 cm (21 x 14 x 12 in)
’You’ve looked at me countless times but you have never really seen me’ (Hackware 0)
sanded & polished 6000-series aluminum (21” iMac Retina display frame), upset aluminum rivet (iMac 27” stand) & enough energy to run the computer for approx. 10 hours [(35 grams of mineral coal (anthracite)]
53 x 36 x 32 cm (21 x 14 x 12 in)
