Toshiba Satellite - Computer sculpture, handcrafted Sculpture

This computer sculpture is made from wood and metal. The motherboard has been salvaged from a laptop and the result is a very efficient one of a kind computer since its mechanism being out of the frame it doesn't encounter overheating problems like most computers usually do. Its design is light and minimalistic. Computer sculpture handcrafted. Artwork and functional device at the same time. intel i5 ssd 240 gb ram 8gb wifi hdmi port vga port I have been a drawing artist for many years now but I recently decided to change a bit my field and turned to a particular type of sculpture. I have always loved science and research as well as art and literature. I managed to combine my passions in "computer art works" which are computers sculptures made from salvaged laptops. After passing between my hands, these computers that for some I repair and which are all functional, acquire a very strong aesthetic, something I pull from their guts.This is probably because I come from Paris and the Pompidou Center Museum has an aesthetic that influenced me a lot. This building, of which Renzo Piano has chosen to highlight the internal structures that used to be hidden inside. I, too, see great beauty in the internal parts of computers, and I consider that they are a marvel of design in the same way that a painting can be an artistic miracle. Often people don't appreciate the aesthetic power of science and technology, because there is an illegitimate separation between the world of beauty governed by the arts and the method world ruled by science. I hope to build more bridges between these two universes showing through my computers the aesthetic nature involved in science and technology. Because great science requires genius and genius is always a thought crossed by an aesthetic vision. I view my art computers as paintings or sculptures to be exposed in an interior. But at the same time, they are functional computers and intended for daily use. In my online teaching practice I have personally witnessed how we spend more and more time in front of screens, whether for work or play. And I am sure all of us who work a lot with our personal computers end up having an emotional relationship with our machine. In addition, the wave of covid19 has fostered intense growth in already well-established online work, and more and more people are working from home in front of their computer. Everything tends to lead us to an increasingly intertwined relationship with our computers. This is often seen as a paradox, since computers give us a certain form of freedom, allowing us to work from a chosen place and at the time we want, but at the same time we always feel more hostages of this connected tool and the digital society. By taking the computer out of its box and exposing its internal organs, I intitiate two movements, the first is aesthetic as I have just described. The second is a movement of knowledge, or familiarization, or de-dramatization. For many users, a computer works like a magic box because they have little or no knowledge of its internal workings. So it turns out that the greatest fear to about a computer is that it crashes. But it is a fear due to the ignorance of computers, since by learning a little about their architecture, we discover that almost all their components are interchangeable. This is how a work of objectification is done on the object which is no longer sacred and which can be appreciated at its fair value for the technological prowess it represents and the beauty that this technique implies. Finally, I want to highlight a very interesting fact about this work. The biggest problem with computers, especially laptops - and a problem with machines in general - is overheating. The computers are equipped with sophisticated temperature control systems to prevent the overheating of their sensitive components and the irreversible damage that could result from this excess heat. The computer therefore constantly adapts its efforts to its own temperature. It is somewhat ironic that taking them out of their box and showing their mechanism that the manufacturers seek to hide - mainly for reasons of ergonomics and transport - the computer becomes much more efficient by eliminating the vast majority of excessive heat issues. Thus, sculpted computers are faster and more efficient than when they were in their frame. By giving them more oxygen, we also give them more life.