Art in the Digital Age: Posthumanism, A.I. and the body

The concept of the body is being explored within art in new ways regarding its digital presentation and non-traditional topics regarding sentience and humanity. Two examples of this are the concepts of online presence and digital personhood. Both of these concepts, which I explore through an art historical perspective, involve considering what makes human experiences, how these experiences can be manipulated, and what the boundaries of the mind and the body are. In this paper I use the works Excellences and Perfections (2014) by Amalia Ulman and Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen (2014) by Cecile B. Evans to discuss the body in the digital age as a representation of posthumanism. I also place my concepts of post humanism within the existing scholarship to consider the ways in which artificial intelligence and non-traditional human forms can be considered as living.

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Grayson Aleksandr Mills

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 329-335

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.59

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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A AneeshL HallP Petro 2012 Introduction: The Making of Worlds Beyond Globalization Rutgers New Jersey
H Burke 2017 Cecile B. Evans https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aiareviews/ccile-b-evans-61882/ 01 December 2019
J Butler 1990 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Routledge United Kingdom
D Chakrabarty 2009 The Climate of History: Four Theses Critical Inquiry 35 2 197 222
I Emmelheinz 2015 Images Do Not Show: The Desire to See in the Anthropocene Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 131 142
J Garreau 2005 Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies-and What It Means to Be Human Random House New York
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E Respini 2018 No Ghost Just a Shell Art in the Age of the Internet Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
D Rourke 2014 ‘Please Don’t Call Me Uncanny’: Cecile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery https://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/dec/04/please-dont-call-me-uncanny-hyperlinks-seventeen-g/ 01 December 2019
A Ulman 2018 Excellences & Perfections Prestel Munich
C Wolfe 2009 What Is Posthumanism? University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis, MN

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[1] A AneeshL HallP Petro 2012 Introduction: The Making of Worlds Beyond Globalization Rutgers New Jersey

[2] H Burke 2017 Cecile B. Evans https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aiareviews/ccile-b-evans-61882/ 01 December 2019

[3] J Butler 1990 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Routledge United Kingdom

[4] D Chakrabarty 2009 The Climate of History: Four Theses Critical Inquiry 35 2 197 222

[5] I Emmelheinz 2015 Images Do Not Show: The Desire to See in the Anthropocene Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies 131 142

[6] J Garreau 2005 Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies-and What It Means to Be Human Random House New York

[7] J IppolitoR Rinehart 2014 Re-collection The MIT Press Cambridge, MA

[8] J Leventhal 2019 How Removing ‘Likes’ from Instagram Could Affect Our Mental Health https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-removing-likes-from-instagram-could-affect-our-mental-health 01 December 2019

[9] E Respini 2018 No Ghost Just a Shell Art in the Age of the Internet Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

[10] D Rourke 2014 ‘Please Don’t Call Me Uncanny’: Cecile B. Evans at Seventeen Gallery https://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/dec/04/please-dont-call-me-uncanny-hyperlinks-seventeen-g/ 01 December 2019

[11] A Ulman 2018 Excellences & Perfections Prestel Munich

[12] C Wolfe 2009 What Is Posthumanism? University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis, MN

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