Cultural Prosthodontics (Missing Teeth)

It's interesting to read threads on Facebook where someone has deleted their responses and it reads like a one-sided cellphone conversation. In a world loosely-stitched into the internet, information integrity is bound to fray.

The Millennial Generation has much fewer tangible objects as containers for memory—the missing teeth in our long-term memories, now filled in with faux nostalgia. At an art fair once, there was an artist that took found slides and negatives from the 1940s-1970s and enlarged them to 16x20 prints. They were gorgeous but had pathos; You wondered what happened to the people in them, and regrettable that someone couldn't even be bothered to keep them, as they take up so little space.

Some artists think we have too many objects already and don’t see a need to create any more. But for a generation bereft of mementos, they actually need to keep making them, and I think is something we need to invest in, even if they are very small prints. Just anything that is completely detached from the network.

Interesting: Just as there are dead links on the net, in the future, AI will have missing teeth as well.