PR - Posthumanism Theory Research
- Jiaren Tang
- 2021年4月24日
- 讀畢需時 3 分鐘
Stelarc - Ear on Arm, via thinglink.com
Artist Bio Stelarc is known for extreme and experimental performance art as well as body modifications. Stelarc has a great interest in anatomy and robotics. He experiments with modern technology and explores how it can facilitate our body movements.
His art is futuristic, bold and unconventional. He feels that technology is part of the human race and that we are inseparable from it. His flesh piercing suspension works are influenced by Hindu Indian rituals.
The subject matter is an ear that looks like a perfectly normal and ordinary human ear that is implanted on the artist's forearm, cushioned by the outer arm. It is made out human cartilage in order to give it a realistic shape and form.
The key point of the composition of the ear is to make it look realistic, like he was born with an ear on his arm. This is achieved using real cartilage and his own stem cells. There are a few elements and principles involved to create the artwork.
Line is created the way a human ear normally appears, where the lines creases and bends. this is achieved using human cartilage under the stem cells that are implanted in order to grow the skin and flesh around it.
The form of the ear is three dimensional. One is able to feel and touch the ear like it is a real ear. It is not flat, it is an extension of the normal human body, a body structure that can be felt. It has dents and protruding points due to the way it is shape around the cartilage.
Neil Harbisson, via elmundo.es
When Neil Harbisson was born, he saw only two colours: black and white. His illness has a name, monochromatism, but so far he has done little to remedy it.
Harbisson was a cyborg, and he was the first person to truly merge with technology, because his art could only be produced because of his particular human and technical conditions. The Eyeborg antenna is the external receiver for Harbisson's line of sight. Harbisson can not only see them through the antenna, but also hear the color. Thanks to a small chip, the device is able to convert different frequencies of light (the color composition of the real world) into audible frequencies. These frequencies are interpreted in his mind in different ways, so Harbisson is able to "hear" the different colors that make up reality.
"I don't use technology. I am technology." His words illustrate the stage after the simple human condition and the way it relates to technology. Today, more than ever, this approach is embedded in our daily lives.
Harbisson was the UK's first legally recognised cyborg, but for the rest of us, technology has ceased to be an accessory to our existence and become a central element of our identity.
Harbisson co-founded the Ciborg Foundation with Moon Rivas. It is intended by both parties to stimulate, support and shelter all those who wish to become cyborg, to promote legal recognition, technical research and to encourage cyborg art and expression.
Patricia Piccinini - Artistic Mutations, via timetravelturtle.com
The sculptural works as the picture shown above was designed by artist Patricia Piccinini.
Artists, particularly those working with living material, or ‘moist media’, have come to play with the essence of the scientific approach and its potential pitfalls. Artworks by bioartists offer an alternative investigation into the consequences and potential outcomes, socially and politically, of a discipline that is inevitably intertwined with ethics.
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