Why we men love that much technology

Despite its title “Warum wir Männer die Technik so lieben”, which features American painter Jack Goldstein, French urban architect Paul Virillo, and German video artist Klaus Von Bruch, is a programme with more questions than answers. What does one do in a world where it is almost impossible to distinguish between the real and the unreal? The world of Goldstein, Virillo and Von Bruch shows how war, speed and technology organize and reorganize reality, until only filtered reality remains. We finish in the bedroom. Behind a gigantic bed, large enough for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hangs a perfect reproduction of Van Eyck’s “Mystic Lamb”. Or is it the original? To present a view of our post-modern society, where speed has become more important than time in its relation to space, this tape continual recycles already recycled images. In so doing, television becomes a vehicle of deconstruction. After war – now also TV – is experienced as a strong metaphor of overwhelming technology. It mixes art with politics, reality with technology, documentary with fiction.