At HTTP (Human Tips for Technological Problems), we care for our clients like family, working together to deliver the best possible solutions to technological problems. We create customized solutions for people of all ages, including state-of-the-art headsets, braces, gloves, and other devices designed to increase the time spent away from screens for each person we serve. HTTP has fundamentally changed the field of counter-tech technology. As a thought leader and innovator in our field, we are able to offer an unparalleled customer experience and superior outcomes compared to other leading providers. Our mission is to maximize the quality of life of our clients and provide an unparalleled client-centred experience by proposing world-class solutions. We fabricate state-of-the-art DIY solutions to tech problems utilizing quality and lightweight materials, as well as various hands-on sessions and advice from previous clients. We also take pride in our high standard of workmanship and strict quality control to assure our clients the utmost comfort and functionality of their tech solutions.
Center for Technological Pain (CTP) is a company conceived by Dasha Ilina that offers DIY and open-source solutions to solve health problems caused by digital technologies such as smartphones and laptops. Among the prototypes it has developed are mechanical eye shields that reduce eye strain, a headset to free the user’s hands, an insomnia-free box and various more or less absurd contraptions to relieve strained elbows and fingers. Ilina, who is part of a generation of millennials who never take their eyes off their smartphone, also offers DIY manuals on how to build low-tech accessories from cheap materials. CTP further questions the negative effects of technology by adapting self-defense techniques to fight this contemporary addiction.
– Text by Marie Lechner.
In the Advice Well Taken project, comprising a publication and a video, Ilina documents what she calls techlore – ‘folk knowledge’ on the complex and opaque functionalities of the modern technologies that surround us. The artist touches on issues affecting our data and privacy, the shortcuts we use to fix our devices and the explanations we find for technological mysteries. For this project, Ilina collected folk tales of digital salvation: everyday stories of anthropomorphisation, hacking and corner-cutting. They show how ordinary people are doing what they can to assert control over technology.
Dasha Ilina developed ADVICE WELL TAKEN during her EMAP residency at IMPAKT in May and June 2023, in collaboration with Supisara Burapachaisri.