ISBN:
9781847144393
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Cyborg experiments
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Conceptual art
;
Conceptual art
;
Electronic books
;
Körper
;
Mensch-Maschine-System
;
Robotik
Abstract:
The Cyborg Experiments analyzes the challenges posed to corporeality by techology. Taking as their starting point the work of the highly influential performance artists Orlan and Stelarc, the essays in this timely and important collection raise a number of questions in relation to new conceptions of embodiment, identity and otherness in the age of new technologies: Has the body become obsolete? Does transgender challenge traditional ideas of agency? Have we always been cyborgs?In addition to highlighting the playful character of digital aesthetics, the contributors investigate ethical issues concerning the ownership of our bodies and the experiments we perform on them. In this way the book explores how humanism, and ideas of "the human", have been placed under increasing scrutiny as a result of new developments in science, media and communications.Contributors:John Appleby, Rachel Armstrong, Fred Botting, Julie Clarke, Gary Hall, Chris Hables Gray, Meredith Jones, Orlan, Mark Poster, Jay Prosser, E. A. Scheer, Zod Sofia, Stelarc, Scott Wilson, Joanna Zylinska.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Extending McLuhan into the New Media Age: An Introduction -- PART 1: THE CYBORG LINKS -- Chapter 1. High-Tech Frankenstein, or Heidegger Meets Stelarc -- Chapter 2. The Human/Not Human in the Work of Orlan and Stelarc -- Chapter 3. Stelarc and Orlan in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 4. Towards a Compliant Coupling: Pneumatic Projects, 1998-2001 -- PART 2: THE OBSOLETE BODY? -- Chapter 5. What Does an Avatar Want? Stelarc's E-motions -- Chapter 6. Planned Obsolescence: Flying into the Future with Stelarc -- Chapter 7. Probings: An Interview with Stelarc -- Chapter 8. Para-Site -- PART 3: SELF-HYBRIDATION -- Chapter 9. Morlan -- Chapter 10. The Virtual and/or the Real -- Chapter 11. Anger, Art and Medicine: Working with Orlan -- PART 4: AESTHETICS AND ETHICS: TECHNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 12. In Defence of Prefigurative Art: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Orlan and Stelarc -- Chapter 13. Ph/autography and the Art of Life: Gillian Wearing's Ethical Realism -- Chapter 14. 'The Future ... Is Monstrous': Prosthetics as Ethics -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Permalink
