Data Body Trader: Identity Augmentation and Post-Biological Organ Trade

This paper explores the topics of post-biological identity, data bodies and augmentation, particularly through the Data Body Trader project. This research aims to present a speculative, practice based method for understanding post-biological identity, through the establishment of artworks and arts based research endeavours that focus on the relationship between bodies of matter, data bodies and their augmentation in embodied, interactive network scenarios. This paper argues that by having bodies that are both material and virtual, humans are post-biological. This research contributes a framework for understanding post-biological identity that focuses on the mixed reality nature of these ubiquitous, multi-faceted networks of self, through the establishment of the data body as an area of discourse.

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Julian Stadon

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 202-207

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[0001]University of the Arts London

Salzburg University of Applied Sciences

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.45

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] R. Ascott 2005 Syncretic Reality: Art, Process and Potentiality Drain 2.2, online

[2] G. Deleuze 1992 Postscript on the Societies of Control October 59 3 7

[3] G. DeleuzeF. A. Guattari 1980 Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Vol. 2 of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 2 vols. 1972-1980. Les Editions de Minuit Paris, France

[4] M. B. N. Hansen 2012 Body Schema as Potentiality M.B.N Hansen Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media. Routledge New York, US

[5] B. Latour 2005 Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor Network Theory. Oxford University Press Oxford, UK

[6] P. MilgramH. TakemuraA. UtsumiF. Koshino 1995 Augmented Reality: A class of displays on the reality-virtuality continuum H. Das Proc. SPIE 2351, Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies 21 December DOI:10.1117/12.197321

[7] J. Stadon 2015a Hybrid Ontologies: An Attempt to Define Networked Mixed Reality Art International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) Vancouver, Canada

[8] J. Stadon 2015b Data Body Banking: Understanding Post-Biological Identity Through Embodied Mixed Reality Art K. NgJ. P. BowenN. Lambert EVA London 2015: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. Electronic Workshops in Computing, BCS. http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/54906 4 May 2017

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