"WE’RE NOT COMPUTERS, SEBASTIAN WE’RE PHYSICAL": UPLOADING BLOOD INTO THE MACHINE
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This project builds from the conjecture presented by N. Katherine Hayles, that ‘the form of the body may change, and so too our concept of embodiment, but that, as humans, our materiality is the key to our lives’ . The project extends this premise through an investigation of the ‘body’ as a fundament of human identity and perception. The project advances the evolution of this condition and will attempt to inscript the corpo/reality of the body into the corps of the algorithmic code. For an integration of corp/reality to be fully realized, I believe a form of ‘viscous data/information’ must be formulated in order for the coalescence to take place. The project will investigate the history of the human/machine dichotomy with particular emphasis on how the digital environment in a posthuman world purportedly renders the physical body obsolete [“leaving the meat behind”]? by initially examining the history behind post-modern tenets running counter to the above, purporting the evolution of man within the digital renders the physical body obsolete, leaving the body to assume a solely virtual existence. The project seeks to incorporate elements of the physical, and their suspension in the material of the ether. ‘Earthing’ the virtual and giving the digital a sense of mortality.
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