PLANE OF THESEUS is a focus group on systems thinking, software virtualisation and corporate financialisation. It takes Boeing's 737 Max crisis, culminating in the 2019 grounding of the plane, as a case study to develop a conversation around those themes.The focus group asks when and how a plane ceases to be a plane, analysing it both as a system able to impact its actions through virtualisation and as the product of a financialised system able to impact its own value (The Boeing Company). Participants explore the topic producing screen based work which ranges from websites to games and film.
- 2020 (focus group)
- RAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITYlondon
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- 2019 (focus group)
- WEISSENSEE KUNSTHOCHSCHULEberlin
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Christine Meyer and Anita Nguyen, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee 
Ezequiel Hyon, BA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee Leon Schöler, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee Jason Yang, MA Moving Image, Ravensbourne University London PLANE OF THESEUS is a focus group on systems thinking, software virtualisation and corporate financialisation. It takes Boeing's 737 Max crisis, culminating in the 2019 grounding of the plane, as a case study to develop a conversation around those themes.
The focus group asks when and how a plane ceases to be a plane, analysing it both as a system able to impact its actions through virtualisation and as the product of a financialised system able to impact its own value (The Boeing Company). Participants explore the topic producing screen based work which ranges from websites to games and film.
![A website with a cloud image in the background and the words 'Crisis Control, the Customers are waiting']()
Christine Meyer and Anita Nguyen, 2019
MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee![An artificial landscape with the words 'safe space' and drawings of yellow rocks overlaid]()
Judith Weber, 2019
MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee![An aircraft flying through dollar signs and oil barrels]()
Leon Schöler, 2019
MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee![A smiling aircraft with a whale's tail surrounded by the words Boeing 7-3-7]()
Yael Ohmer and Anneliese Wabnitz, 2019
MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee![Black and white, mri-style scans of the components of an aircraft]()
Ezequiel Hyon, 2019
MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee![key dates in the production and development of an aeroplane obscured by a quote saying 'ideas are measured in dollars' - managers at boeing]()
