Posthumanism: The human body transition

This practice-led research focuses on posthumanism: the human body transition. The work is placed at the intersection of digital-physical performance, embodiment and body engineering, and contemporary technology. The study investigates a currently topical discourse on posthumanist scenarios, bioengineering, postgenderism, astrobiology, cosmology.

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Anna Nazo

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 253-256

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[0001]Artist; Fine Art Research, Contemporary

Art Practice (Performance)

Russia / United Kingdom

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2016.48

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 12 - 14 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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N. K. Hayles 1999 How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics USA The University of Chicago Press
N. K. Hayles 2002 Writing Machines UK The MIT Press
Walker Art Center 1981 Chance Conversations: An Interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.voutube.com/watch?v=ZNGp¡XZovgk">https://www.voutube.com/watch?v=ZNGp¡XZovgk 6 January 2016
T. Warr 2000 The Artist’s Body UK Phaidon Press
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[1] L. Barrett 2011 Beyond the Brain: How body and environment shape animal and human minds UK Princeton University Press

[2] S. Dixon 2007 Digital Performance USA The MIT Press

[3] G. DvorskyJ. Hughes 2008 Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://ieet.org/archive/IEET-03-PostGender.pdf">http://ieet.org/archive/IEET-03-PostGender.pdf 26 March 2015

[4] N. K. Hayles 1999 How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics USA The University of Chicago Press

[5] N. K. Hayles 2002 Writing Machines UK The MIT Press

[6] Walker Art Center 1981 Chance Conversations: An Interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.voutube.com/watch?v=ZNGp¡XZovgk">https://www.voutube.com/watch?v=ZNGp¡XZovgk 6 January 2016

[7] T. Warr 2000 The Artist’s Body UK Phaidon Press

[8] D. Wennemann 2015 Posthumanisms: A Carnapian Experiment ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/wennemann20150319">http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/wennemann20150319 26 March 2015

[9] C. Wolfe 2010 What is Posthumanism? USA University of Minnesota Press

[10] J. Zylinska 2009 Bioethics in the Age of New Media USA The MIT Press

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