Benjamin Poynter
In Benjamin Poynter’s exhibition “In A Permanent Save
State”, he sheds much light on what America widely doesn’t: Obsession with
technology. The fact that technology is used so demandingly, many tend not to
think of how or who manufactures these things, especially Apple products, such
as the IPhone. Poynter created an Indie mobile game with a total of 7 levels to
symbolize the 7 laborers that took their own lives and died in vein of laboring
of making an Apple product. He designs the levels to be a representation of
their afterlives based on the belief systems of the laborers before having
their own lives taken. These tragedies should have been enough to wake America
up and let them know that these devices are not worth someone else’s life.
Another piece that he uses to correspond with the exhibition is the Afterlife’s
bank in which the audience is to shred their paper money into the container for
those who died so those deceased can use it. The logics he used to make this
successful exhibition, was to draw the audience in by getting them involved by
playing this game on the IPhone’s available. I really learned a lot from this
exhibition and it just reminds me that technology is NOT the sole basis of
life, especially with the knowledge that humans once survived without all of
these advanced devices. 
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