Designboom | alex dodge: generative

by Andrea DB

original article - July 12, 2010

the interests of new york-based artist alex dodge extends into the relationshipsbetween humanity, technology, art and design, in which he has designed a collectionof garments of concept prototypes developed in collaboration with brooklyn-basedtech start-up generative. each of the works address the notion of passive interfacing;engaging the human body through acquiescent means. some of the pieces seem to be influencedby science fiction while others are more accessibly clear-cut. the prototypes developed bydodge himself, range in their levels of functionality, but are presented here as art objectsand design objects on equal standing. while dodge may focus on creating mass-manufacturableproducts, envisioning that they bring people one step closer to a utopian ideal,dodge's objects fetishize the technological imperative, or the inevitable hybridizationof man and machine, as something worthy of appreciation in itself.