“Posthumanism, Technology, and Monstrous Life Forms” presented by Bucur

Symposium:

• ISEA2018: 24th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Hybridisation and Purity (Short Papers)

• Posthumanism, Technology, and Monstrous Life Forms

• Anca Bucur

Venue(s):

• DUT City Campus, Durban, South Africa

• This article aims to discuss and argue about the tangled and intricate relations between posthumanism and technology in the attempt of elaborating upon the creation of new monstrous forms of life within the framework of bioart. By dwelling on works by Oron Catts and Ioana Zurr, the article seeks to re-think posthumanism’s species inclusiveness as a scientifically and technologically determined trait and to emphasize the role of technology in decentering the human-normative understanding of life. Nevertheless, using examples pertaining to the artistic field, the paper implicitly re-phrases the artistic enterprise from the point of view of a theoretical, lab-researched based endeavor dictated by accelerated biotechnological changes.

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