Cannibal Tech  An estimated 750 million PCs are in use this minute across the world. These PCs get discarded and replaced about every five years. The manufacture of just one average desktop PC and monitor requires "1.8 tons of raw material" according to a 2004 United Nation's study. The study also reports that when used PC's are not properly recycled, additional carbon emissions from discarded plastics and hazardous chemicals further contribute to global warming and illness. The aim of "Cannibal Tech" is to make visible the connection between the three elements involved in the cycle of PC production and waste: the technology industries whose production methods contaminate the earth's ecosystems; the global labor force whose health is compromised in the production and recycling of computer components; and the consumers (including artists and intellectuals) who buy and discard those machines often overlooking the way their "immaterial" labor contributes to the first two processes.

This project was funded in part by the Puffin Foundation with special thanks to Dan Matsch and Ecocycle