The Future Human: Exploring Posthuman Aesthetics through Digital and Immersive Technologies

The artistic research explores the post-human aesthetics through the use live action/computer generated animation and Augmented Reality. Drawing on transgenics, biotechnology and bionics, the research proposes two different scenarios of an enhanced human. Effectively, these scenarios are represented through the projects entitled PHOTOPHILIA – a live action/animation video showing a human being that can photosynthesise, and MODIFIED – an Augmented Reality experience based on cyborg aesthetics.

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Kristina Pulejkova

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 208-212

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.46

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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. AzumaY. BaillotR. BehringerS. FeinerS. JulierB. MacIntyre 2001 Recent advances in augmented reality IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 21 6 34 47

[2] D. Crafton 1993 Before Mickey. The animated film 1898-1928. [Revised edition.] University of Chicago Press Chicago

[3] Cyborg Foundation http://www.cyborqfoundation.com 20 March 2017

[4] Cyborg Nest. https://www.cyborgnest.net 20 March 2017

[5] D. DeGrazia 2005 Enhancement Technologies and Human Identity Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 261 283

[6] M. Featherstone 2000 Body Modification. Sage publications London

[7] M. Hansen 2006 Bodies in Code: Interfaces with digital media. Routlege, Taylor & Francis Group New York

[8] Y. Harari 2015 Homo Deus: A Brief history of Tomorrow. Harvil Secker London

[9] K. Hayles 1999 How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature and informatics. University of Chicago Press Chicago

[10] S. LiaoA. SandbergR. Roache 2012 Human Engineering and Climate Change Ethics, Policy and Environment 15 206 221

[11] A. Miller 2014 Colliding Worlds: How cutting-edge science is redefining contemporary art. W.W. Norton & Company New York

[12] NHS Digital 2016 Statistics on Sexual and Reproductive Health Services, England 2015/16. NHS Digital UK

[13] M. O’Mahony 2002 Cyborg: The man-machine. Thames & Hudson London

[14] Oxford Dictionaries 2017 Definition of photophilic in English. English Oxford Living Dictionaries. Oxford University Press Oxford https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/photophilic 20 March 2017

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