Waiting for the Alien
Genre : drawning
Supports : paper
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.6.) Encounter of the 3rd kind
Aug
Genre : Audio happening
Supports : Digital memory
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.4.) Processing of auditory perception
Experiment of a change of the hearing sense?
A live glitch experience.
The first of its kind, ever.
Listen to us descend further into the maelstrom of the blown and delayed mind, the debris of which feedback further into the explosions.
Comment by the artist :
Aug explores the augmented world of his imagination. His mind alters the nature in which his senses perceive, which feedback into his mind.
His listens to his brainwaves vocoded through the external sounds, which echo, delay, and surround him. His minds-eye is projected into his real vision. He is in a waking dream. He carries his cumbersome technology in a backpack. He is a DIY psychonaug, one of the first.
What does Aug see, feel, and hear as he sucks himself into the Imagination Black Hole?
MultilarityA work inspired by the concept of the “multilarity”, as described in a blog post by user TransAlchemy:
http://www.hpluscommunity.com/profiles/blogs/multilarity-and-the-singular
REALTOXICNOTE
Genre : video animation
Supports : computer
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
3.2.) The Singularity
Infinite acceleration into the singularity of the fractal self.
(Music by Cortexelation)
Guidstone Teleportation Hub
Genre : Photo
Supports : carbon pigment print
Subjects : 3.) Other Goals and Examples of experimental enhancement
from the series Digital Bodies :
Digital Bodies
The arrival of virtual environments and augmented realities have had a distinct impact on the way we interact with the world. These types of simulations cause new relationships between the observer and what is being observed and affect our senses and experiences in ways that are more dramatic and monumental than ever before.
The Digital Bodies series considers what the future world might be like, both visually and experientially, when the real and the virtual collide. The hybrid of synthetic and organic realities is already underway, and the effects of this synthesis will reveal interesting changes in the way we go about our everyday lives. Not only will our ways of doing things change substantially but the tactility of our contact with the environment will alter as well.
There are many possibilities that we could imagine occurring in the near and distant future. The ability to control robotic entities remotely, capture, translate, and output from neural firings into language, create avatars and interact with them in virtual worlds, access directions to any location in the world through our cell phones, or even learn how busy a particular cafe is through augmented reality applications. These are minor changes; yet, they have opened up access to a more united habitat; breaking down traditional borders and opening up a network of information that is incalculably immense.
Eventually the separation between the real world and the virtual will become seamless as we slide from one mode of being into another.
Patrick Millard
Genre : theatrical performance
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(english)
«πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον άνθρωπος» : Man is the measure of everything. This sentence by Protagoras pre-Socratic philosopher, that has already provoked a lot of reflexion (starting with Plato), is no less essential for Transhumanists.
Is human the measure of everything? Beyond the ontological question (does something absolutely exist, beyond everyone’s perception, or everything relative?) for transhumanists reaching beyond the human, the question might arise as follows: should there always be something human in what we become?
Yiannis Melanitis now places this question into the mouth of the Sphinx, this mythical chimera who questioned Oedipus on the nature of man by a famous riddle. The Sphinx, half woman, half animal, questions her own destiny in the light of anthropocentrism and the importance of linguistic formulation in any query.
Here is a dense mixture of symbols and concepts forming a critique that Transhumanism could not avoid.
For my part, I address the essence of this question through the role of consciousness.
What about you?
(français)
«πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον άνθρωπος» : L’homme est la mesure de toute chose. Cette phrase du philosophe présocratique Protagoras, si elle a déjà fait couler beaucoup d’encre (en commençant par celle de Platon), n’en ai pas moins essentielle à prendre en compte pour les Transhumanistes.
L’humain est-il mesure de toute chose ? Au delà de la question ontologique (quelque chose existe-t-il absolument, en dehors de la perception de chacun, ou au contraire tout est-il relatif ?), pour les Transhumanistes, qui envisagent d’aller peut-être au-delà de l’humain, la question pourrait par exemple se poser ainsi : devra-t-il toujours y avoir de l’humain dans ce que nous deviendrons ?
Yiannis Melanitis place maintenant cette interrogation dans la bouche du Sphinx, cette chimère mythique qui interrogea Œdipe sur la nature de l’homme par une énigme célèbre. Et le Sphinx, mi femme, mi animal, de s’interroger sur sa propre destinée pesée à l’aune de l’anthropocentrisme et sur l’importance du langage dans toute interrogation.
Voilà un mélange dense de symboles et de concepts qui débouche sur tout un questionnement que le Transhumanisme ne peut éviter.
Pour ma part, je réponds à une bonne part de cette interrogation en mettant en avant le rôle de la Conscience.
Et vous ?