19.07.06 Crucifix NG, tech-enhanced faith.
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."