The Dead Vehicles was a small solo exhibition done during my fall semester as a Senior Multimedia Major at UArts. My thesis focused on waning communicative devices and how quickly they are reinvented and shelved, which stems from my interest in obsolete and antiquated technologies. I picked three genres of communicative media to represent: Music (produced audio), Film/Video (motion and audio) and Telecommunication (person to person). From there, I chose vinyl records, VHS cassettes and dial-up modems as the three pillars to focus on, because of their current relevance to our culture. All three are on their way out, some more so than others, but none of which are really obsolete.

Each medium was separated into their own found object sculpture, creating three separate (but conceptually relating) vignettes. The vignettes explained each medium's technology, success, failures and history by using the medium itself. The presentation of each was intended to convey a sense of obsolescence. Although I never clearly state that any of these mediums are in fact antiquated artifacts of our culture, I explain them in such a way that they were extinct tools no one in our modern society has ever witnessed. This context helps fill out my thesis as a critical portrayal of our constant, and now seemingly accelerated, approach to reinventing "modern" communication.