Wednesday Edition: Todd McLellan
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Old Phone by Todd McLellan
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Hello, collectors! Today Todd McLellan is back again. True to his series Disassembly, we're presented with a relic—this time, the telephone—exploded, in Apart Phone, and taken apart then arranged, in Old Phone.
It wasn't so long ago that such devices were this large and tethered. In an attempt to define just how far we've come since then, I turned to the trusty pages of Wikipedia, where I read: "The telephone... is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds such as the voice of humans." The emphasis is my own; somewhere along the line the definition became increasingly specific, starting from: "a device designed to transmit speech by means of electric signals."
Of course, it's true, that the sound on the other end might not be human, and more so, we no longer use phones just to speak to one another. In fact, talking and hearing is often the hardest thing to do on the current incarnation, no longer merely mobile: the smartphone. In lieu of this convenient way to span great distances by sound, we're able to take and share pictures, email, text, navigate by GPS, access enormous amounts of information with our fingertips and even see the person we are attempting to communicate with on FaceTime. We can also use our voices to command our phones to do these tasks for us, touch free—tended and responded to by the almost-but-not-quite-human sound of Siri.*
But, as Todd points out in his artist statement, regardless of how new technology may be, it "will itself be rapidly replaced with half the use" someday, and, at our current pace, soon (and with a consequent suite of Wikipedia page revisions). Whether you view our newsletters on your smartphone, iPad or computer, be sure to check your inbox tomorrow, when Jen will be introducing two new editions from the ever-popular Christian Chaize.
— Sara
*Fully knowing that the voice emanating from a device might not be human makes few things more comforting than recognizing a voice from far away—knowing who is on the other end, wherever they may be.
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