Dismantle to Assemble: Reverse Engineering as an Artistic Methodology
La ingeniería inversa como metodología artística
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https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2023.v5i6.17818Keywords:
Technology, opacity, reverse engineering, art, methodologyAbstract
This visual essay titled Dismantle to assemble explains the reverse engineering, commonly associated with the field of computing, as an artistic methodology. In this sense, pictures, diagrams and sounds used to document how I dismantled electric devices act as breadcrumbs in the famous tale Hänsel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm. This is, they allow us to reverse the path already taken and analyse the role of the different internal components of the electronic devices, as the traditional definition of reverse engineering determine. However, the possibility of recycling the internal components of electronic devices, as well as the graphic materials that document their disassembly and their connection with Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept Postproduction, allow bringing reverse engineering to a next level. Specifically, the destructive act against the electric device becomes a link between two apparently disassociated disciplines, art and technology, which helps us understanding the meaning and symbology of internal electronic components, as well as their closed use protocols with the objective of reversing the technological opacity that we find in contemporary electrical devices.
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