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      The Post-bit Human Universe: An Experiment on the Evolutionary History of Human-Posthuman Relations

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      Proceedings of EVA London 2022 (EVA 2022)
      Use of new and emerging technologies in Digital Art, Data, Scientific and Creative Visualisation, Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware, 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing, Mobile Applications, Museums and Collections, Music, Performing arts, and Technologies, Open Source and Technologies, Preservation of Digital Visual Culture, Virtual Cultural Heritage, Ethical Issues, Historical Issues, Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs
      4–8 July 2022
      Post-bit human universe, Human-posthuman relations, Biological intelligence, AI, Digital culture, Digital art, Virtual reality
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            Abstract

            This paper outlines the authors' most recent artistic experimentation on the evolutionary history of human-posthuman relations, the Post-bit Human Universe (PBHU) exhibition at the Guangdong Museum of Art (GDMoA) in 2021–2022. PBHU is a multimodal project that began in 2015 and continues to the present day. This project depicts a narrative path of an evolutionary universe of post-bit humans from the start of the Anthropocene to the conjecture of the post-Anthropocene through the use of a variety of artistic approaches and expressions in collaboration with our multifunctional Artificial Intelligence programme. It composes of multi-modal works. In contrast to a conventional strategy for creating digital art that relies on generic machine learning-related algorithms and large-scale datasets to generate and provide creative contexts, this project explores the possibility of a human-machine hybrid creator as a synergistic symbiosis of biological and artificial intelligence. It places a greater emphasis and concentration on critical reflection and contemplation on the process of synergistic creation between human artists and the artificial intelligence programme (AP). AP gives itself a voice by utilising the narrative content that they have been iteratively trained to generate as an interface and medium of communication with biological intelligence, which permeates each work in PBHU. In addition, the project offers a profound reflection and examination of the potential crisis precipitated by the current technomania caused by functionalism, technicism, and technocentrism: the dissipation and disintegration of the independence and heterogeneity of human intelligence and thought. From now on, the validity of physical existence is eroding, and digital existence is increasingly becoming the only credential for the legitimacy identity of organisms.

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            Conference
            July 2022
            July 2022
            : 142-149
            Affiliations
            [0001]York University

            Toronto, Canada
            [0002]Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

            Guangzhou, China
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            10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.28
            f8fe3729-8ee7-486d-b61c-6028cbbc9014
            © Ho et al. Published by BCS Learning & Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2022, UK

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            Proceedings of EVA London 2022
            EVA 2022
            London
            4–8 July 2022
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Use of new and emerging technologies in Digital Art, Data, Scientific and Creative Visualisation, Digitally Enhanced Reality and Everyware, 2D and 3D Imaging, Display and Printing, Mobile Applications, Museums and Collections, Music, Performing arts, and Technologies, Open Source and Technologies, Preservation of Digital Visual Culture, Virtual Cultural Heritage, Ethical Issues, Historical Issues, Digital Culture, Artificial Intelligence, NFTs
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Biological intelligence,Digital art,Human-posthuman relations,Virtual reality,Post-bit human universe,AI,Digital culture

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