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Old technologies and machines as a source of inspiration for art

  • Fine Art
  • Design

How do you translate technological history into something that is fascinating and inspiring to watch at the same time? Design Art Technology students got to work with that question.

image from the article on innovationorigins.com
image from the article on innovationorigins.com

A large collection of machines and old technologies can be found in the cellars of NXP. From diodes to the first hand-made memory chips. A gold mine for Design Art Technology students. For their graduation internship, they started working with an installation that really shows and experiences the technology.

A gold mine! We immediately saw the urgency to keep this, although with many devices and parts we really had no idea what it was supposed to represent. But here was the digital revolution in stories and devices up for grabs.
Florian van Zandwijk, alumni Design Art Technology
Design Art Technology-teacher Bram de Groot