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

Abstract

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.

Contributors

Grayson Aleksandr Mills

Conference

Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 329-335

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Graduate Student (Virginia Commonwealth University)

311 W Franklin St APT 409 Richmond VA 23220, USA

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.59

Copyright statement: © Mills. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2020

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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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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing