cyborg

WHO TERMINATED THE CYBORG?

This was my keynote for the IMAC2012 and the Re-New Digital Art Festival, at Aalborg University Copenhagen. The conference was chaired by Morten Søndergaard. The annual Re-New digital arts festival presents a wide selection of the newest ground-breaking works in digital music, video, installations, performative, and distributed / collaborative art. The full essay is forthcoming with the title: "Who Terminated the Cyborg? The Normalization of

WHO TERMINATED THE CYBORG?2018-02-06T18:38:26+00:00

CURATING POST-HUMANITY?

CURATING POST-HUMANITY? ART IN BETWEEN UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA ABSTRACT The paper will discuss the vision of a future that has moved from the optimistic approach of the Futurists, in which a technologically based utopian world would represent the panacea to the problems of humanity, to one of a contemporary dystopian vision in which the ‘maimed’ post-human body represent a temporary hybrid response to the cataclysmic

CURATING POST-HUMANITY?2018-02-06T18:38:52+00:00

THE NORMALIZATION OF THE CYBORG

THE NORMALIZATION OF THE CYBORG: FROM FUTURISTIC ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF MUTILATION TO DAILY AESTHETIC BEAUTY ABSTRACT The concept of mutilation as a permanent scarring of the integrity of the body has been overcome by the representation in visual culture of the cyborg, the bionic human and the genetically and bionically engineered mutant. Mutants with bionic prosthetics in the X-Men film trilogy, the bionic man in

THE NORMALIZATION OF THE CYBORG2018-02-06T18:39:00+00:00

LANGUAGE OF THE CYBORG

WHAT LANGUAGE DOES THE CYBORG SPEAK? CULTURE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY AS PART OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE CYBORG? ABSTRACT The essay will explore the concept of post-humanity as a cultural construction that, as Elaine Graham explained, [1] is a condition which affects both human and post-human social frameworks. If the post-human body is a cultural definition, does the cyborg speak English, as it is the

LANGUAGE OF THE CYBORG2014-04-03T07:46:45+00:00
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