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