Deveril Garraghan is a dancer and performer and runs his own, Sheffield-based performance company ECT . Tim Hall has toured throughout Britain and internationally with Forced Entertainment , as well as performing in film and television work. Jamie Iddon has performed with several companies in Britain and abroad including the highly-regarded Blast Theory . In 1998 over 1 million PCs are scheduled to be dumped by British businesses. As it stands most of this equipment will end up in landfills.
Artists are the ideal people to experiment with redundant technology.
While the rest of us may find that old computers won't do the tasks we want them to, artists can investigate playfully and be creative with what the machines can do, rather than being frustrated by what they can't. Artists should be making work that's relevant to what's going on right now. But many of them aren't getting involved with information technology because it's expensive. There's been a lot of media attention given to artworks that use the newest, most expensive computers. But many of these artworks seem less like works of art than like advertisements for the latest technology.