In this exhibition we look into the world of human cyborgs, and what we could look like in the future. What does it mean it to be human? We have 5 senses, but what will these 5 senses be like in the future where the line between humans and machines is blurred.
To be a normal functioning human being, we need 5 senses to survive on our current planet Earth. If one was taken away, what will we do? Either live with it, or replace it.
With alterations and enhancments, will we still be the same? Will there be sex and gender? Our new mechanical skinbecomes a permanent modification of the body architec- ture. What is a skin? Are we all just souls living in a body? If we can replace our body parts, will we still have the same sensation of touch we have now? How will metal skins feel like? Though we are now enhaced, but does this come with a price of not having bodily sensations? What is being generated and experienced is not the biological other - but an excessive technological other, a third other. Humans have a duty to use technology to transcend their senses.
All of us have different purposes. It’s just that these people’sappearances have changed. Are human incapable on ourown? Do we need artificial technology to engineer our bodiesso we can live a “normal” life?
2019
digital painting 297 x 420
With one eye normal and the other replaced by artificial machine, she is now able to maximise her sights. Her new eye now performs beyond the boundaries of its original ability and beyond the local space that it occupies. By enhancing her sight abilities, she will be able to experience this strange new modern world differently. Maybe now she can see human temperatures?
2019
digital painting 297 x 420
What is a skin? Are we all just souls living in a body? If we can replaced our body parts, will we still have the same sensation of touch we have now? How will metal skins feel like? Though we are now enhaced, but does this come with a prize of not having bodily sensations?
What is being generated and experienced is not the biological other - but an excessive technological other, a third other. Humans have a duty to use technology to transcend their senses.
2019
digital painting 297 x 420
These hearing prosthetic attachments and implants are not simply replacements for a part of the body that has been traumatized or has been amputated. But it can help human with the sounds of future. We may be able to hear all languages and even understand inffrasounds.
2019
digital painting 297 x 420
Will the air be safe for us to breath? Humans need oxygen to survive, but what if human modifications have advanced so far that we don’t need oxygen to survive anymore? Will we now have 4 basic human senses? If we become half machine, or fully machine, surely we don’t need oxygen to survive..
2019
digital painting 297 x 420
These are prosthetic objects that augment the body’s architecture, engineering extended operational systems of bodies and bits of bodies, spatially separated but electronically connected. In the future, we will have the “modern food”. We may not necessary need the sensation of taste. We can use our tongue for something else.
2019
digital painting 297 x 420
With alterations and enhancments, will we still be the same? Will there be sex and gender? Our new machenical skin becomes a permanent modification of the body architecture. Certainly what becomes important now is not merely the body’s identity, but its connectivity- not its mobility or location, but its interface.
148 x 210
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