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AAF 2015: Call for Papers and Works

Peter May 20, 2014 4723 Views No Comments

This conference and exhibition address the problem of a non-, post-, trans- or inhuman aesthetics: an ‘aesthetics after finitude’ that is capable of investigating the cultural, technological and ecological demands of a rapidly dehumanising present.

Information Becoming Aware of Itself

Peter March 20, 2014 6745 Views 7 Comments

The network of neurons in our brains somehow grants us the conscious ability to learn and grow, so the pattern itself is self-optimizing.

Arts: The Parahuman Sculpture of Patricia Piccinini, Posthumanity and What It Really Means to be Human

Peter October 11, 2013 31679 Views 3 Comments

Patricia Piccinini is an Australian mixed media and multimedia artist who uses sculpture to explore one possible type of posthuman future; a future where parahumans, genetic alterations that are blendings of animal and human forms and DNA, are common place.

The Interactive Anthrozoo

Peter May 15, 2013 3311 Views 1 Comment

You take your dog (or hyena) to the neighborhood park for a walk, and there it frolics with other beasts on the cybernetic meadow and through the ShrubPlugs. And pets are many-times cross-petted. Is everyone updating their Facebook timelines and flirting on Twitter?