Beware of the 7000
As we consciously experience a monumental shift in our planet’s evolution due to climate change installation artists Janice Mauro and Joanne Pagano Weber ask the question, if corporations are people, too, what if they lose their humanity?
It’s the second melting of the polar icecap. The power of the few dictate the blueprint of a resurgent planet depleted once again. All resources are up for grabs as the human race divides along biological / robotic fault lines. While multitudes transition becoming semi-human mechanisms under the control of an artificial brain, two artists continue their work in hiding, corresponding by the only thing they have left – their creativity.
Art lovers, thinkers, prophets, or gamers, look no further.
It’s the second melting of the polar icecap. The power of the few dictate the blueprint of a resurgent planet depleted once again. All resources are up for grabs as the human race divides along biological / robotic fault lines. While multitudes transition becoming semi-human mechanisms under the control of an artificial brain, two artists continue their work in hiding, corresponding by the only thing they have left – their creativity.
Art lovers, thinkers, prophets, or gamers, look no further.
Cerebrus Rex
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The command and control of the robotics.
The Mannequins
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Emerging Man |
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The Renaissance of evil: With an endless supply of refuse from ancient generations, the soulless, robotic Corporate Elites possessed a cold genius for recreating themselves. And few humanoids today understand “survival” in its raw sense like our ancestors who survived the Elite scourge of the year 7000, only to face a new robotic tribe, the Mannequins. The Corporate Elite class abandoned their humanoid nature in favor of robotic efficiency and enhanced power. During this period of resurgence around the year 7000, they considered mannequins sacred relics of their commercial humanoid past, a link to their humanoid origins. As ancient symbols of humanoid perfection through commerce, they became part of Corporate Elite mythology. The Elites retooled the shells of mannequins for their highest ranking, most intelligent robotic soldiers, like this one, and for spies that could pass as humanoids. Over time, they were utilized to inspire terror in existing contemporary humanoids. It is documented by the spy Zenois Zenon, that there once existed an entire army of these creatures. |
Humanoid interment, as we know it, was outlawed during the reign of the Corporate Elites. Scholars have concluded that Emerging Man is not an artifact, but a sculpture of a Semi-Humanoid Pawn of the Elites, depicted as if suspended between two states: a Semi’s conventional birthing process, and the traditional, though outlawed, burial ritual of a humanoid. As such, scholars believe the sculpture is a sympathetic portrayal, by a humanoid, of a feared enemy in the decades following the year 7000. |
The Corporate Erect
In the year 7050, the Corporate Elites, a ruthless robotic class, and their semi-robotic pawns, control the planet and resources, mostly refuse. Little of nature survives. Humanoids, or "noids" live in hiding. The Corporate Erect, a corrupt humanoid political group, is on the rise. The portrait is a prism-like device employed to project the tyrannical Corporate Erects' magnified images across the night sky, broadcasting their cult of personalities, their dominance, and their control of resources in opposition to the Corporate Elites.
