Future Artefacts FM / Infinite Customisation / 02.07.23

Please join us for this special episode of Future Artefacts FM with Joe Moss’ audio piece Infinite Customisation. In this 17 minute audio-book style work, we meet the ghost of J. Thaddeus Toad, transported from the 1908 novel, The Wind in the Willows, and risen in the future. Following Toad’s perceptions, the work draws contrasts between the linear perspective of industrial England in the 1910s to a far different reality of revolving subcultures, nostalgia and technological beings. With Joe, we unpack the connections between nostalgia and progress, where Toad’s opinions may come from and where the idea of modernity still haunts the present day. Together we consider Toad’s legacy, how he implies capitalistic growth, and what economic alternatives that throws up, while considering the impact these larger models have on our cultures and connections with one another.