Crucifix NG, tech-enhanced faith

Crucifix NG

Religion and technology share faith. Many of their respective most important processes are unknowable in details and require an unconditioned trust to accept their results. Furthermore developing only a part of human nature they both need evangelists and strong motivations to convince individuals. But when people is drowned in the sacred water of religion / technology, they start to seriously and continously consider another level of reality, expressed through acts or symbols. Crucifix NG by Elliot Malkin is a project that plays on the popular use of religion symbols, enhancing the faith and technology binomial power. The author launched the project as the ‘principal work of the Faith-Based Electronics Group at the Interactive Televangelist Program (ITP)’, but it is basically a crucifix that host on the back a battery-operated transmitter broadcasting an ASCII, non-denominational version of the Lord’s Prayer. The supposedly benefic force of the small object is then extended to every object that can receive a radio signal (including our own bodies), drowning the environment in a electromagnetic transmitted ritual prayer. But this activity is not visible, and even eventually somehow quirky to prove. So in the end, as the author stated: “The battery will eventually run out. And it may not matter.”