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2001: A Space Odyssey: Film Analysis

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Beyond good and evil, make way toward the waste land.
Materials: Ceramic, iron, wood, glass, ash, other
Dimensions: 8900×3200×4200 mm (W/H/D)

Within a large glass case are dust-covered chairs, a bed, cabinets, chipped marble pillars, oil painting, and other weathered items which appear to be from a forgotten hotel room.

The symmetry, motif, and coloration are suggestive of the pure white room in the final scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

This final room appears within the movie as a room prepared by the monolith (an advanced computer which guides humans) for the next step in human evolution. If this massive sculpture were a faithful re-creation of the room, destroyed and weathered, what are we to think of it?

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Destroying a room prepared by an advanced computer for the purpose of human evolution. How can we interpret this work/procedure? This work can be alluding to a departure from the 20th-century, …show more content…

This project was titled “Agricultural Revolution 3.0”.

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