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Center for Technological Pain

Exhibition of DIY solutions to health problems caused by digital technologies by Dasha Ilina

A window display inside a shopping mall. There is a back metal shutter covering the middle, with exhibitions either side showing mannequins wearing prototypes, a TV screen, and the words 'centre for technological pain' on the glass.

Center for Technological Pain (CTP) offers DIY products for tech-pain free lives. The fictional company was set up to manage, prevent and treat the symptoms caused by digital technologies. Among their products are contraptions to relieve eye-strains, insomnia, and strained elbows and fingers. The installation presented the latest innovations from CTP as well as new products made by Bristol-based designers and makers at the DIY Solutions to End Tech Pain workshop led by CTP CEO, Dasha Ilina.

Co-produced with Knowle West Media Centre and KWMC: The Factory.

For Control Shift 2020, CTP was presented in a shop front in ‘The Galleries’ Shopping Centre in central Bristol.

Image credit:
Ibi Feher

About the artist

Dasha Ilina

Dasha Ilina is a Russian digital artist based in Paris, France. Her work explores the relationship we develop with the digital devices we use on a daily basis, specifically in regards to the human body. Ilina’s work centers around notions of care and technology, DIY practices and low-tech solutions to examining various issues such as phone addiction, tech-related health problems and privacy in the digital age. She is the founder of the Center for Technological Pain, a center that proposes DIY solutions to health problems caused by digital technologies. She is also the co-director of NØ SCHOOL NEVERS.

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