That dude used was colorblind and used that device to hear color. Also a bunch of animal cyborgs by Roland Tamayo
http://sweet-station.com/blog/2010/09/roland-tamayo/
Monday, April 11, 2011
cyborg images to ponder
That dude used was colorblind and used that device to hear color. Also a bunch of animal cyborgs by Roland Tamayo
http://sweet-station.com/blog/2010/09/roland-tamayo/
more cyborg thingies to read
http://www.cni.org/pub/LITA/Think/Porush.html -> Transcendence at the Interface: The Architecture of Cyborg Utopia -- or --Cyberspace Utopoids as Postmodern Cargo Cult
David Porush
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The way to get to utopia is to model your view of human nature and then invent a technology to control or direct that model"
"In short, the posthuman is the inscription of the ultimate controlling technology onto the human, the cybernetic technologies of selfhood, of mental identity, of cognition, of the mind, of intelligence itself, of communication, of language, and of The Code. To that extent, we are all cyborgs already, controlled by the systems we've embraced or which have embraced and defined us through our media, our computers, our systems of communication. For this reason, virtual reality, or cyberspace, is the perfect expression of postmodern trends."
"the desire to leave the body but keep the mind."
" The projection of utopian wishes onto cyberspace represents a nostalgic desire to return to some sacramental space. After all, cyberspace, like other heavens, won't really be a place, but rather the simulation of a place, a virtual space."
"If cyberspace is utopian it is because it opens the possibility of using the deterministic platform for unpredictable ends (as the laws of chaos are teaching us is possible), launching us into ever-higher orders of complexity as we fluctuate non-linearly in this far-from-equilibrium cyborg system. Perhaps, who knows, we might even grow a system large and complex and unstable enough to leap across that last of all possible bifurcations -- autopoetically -- into that strangest of all possible attractors, the godmind, just as Gibson predicts. It's pretty to think so, anyway. And both comforting and dismaying that even as postmoderns we still labor under these irresistible delusions."
David Porush
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The way to get to utopia is to model your view of human nature and then invent a technology to control or direct that model"
"In short, the posthuman is the inscription of the ultimate controlling technology onto the human, the cybernetic technologies of selfhood, of mental identity, of cognition, of the mind, of intelligence itself, of communication, of language, and of The Code. To that extent, we are all cyborgs already, controlled by the systems we've embraced or which have embraced and defined us through our media, our computers, our systems of communication. For this reason, virtual reality, or cyberspace, is the perfect expression of postmodern trends."
"the desire to leave the body but keep the mind."
" The projection of utopian wishes onto cyberspace represents a nostalgic desire to return to some sacramental space. After all, cyberspace, like other heavens, won't really be a place, but rather the simulation of a place, a virtual space."
"If cyberspace is utopian it is because it opens the possibility of using the deterministic platform for unpredictable ends (as the laws of chaos are teaching us is possible), launching us into ever-higher orders of complexity as we fluctuate non-linearly in this far-from-equilibrium cyborg system. Perhaps, who knows, we might even grow a system large and complex and unstable enough to leap across that last of all possible bifurcations -- autopoetically -- into that strangest of all possible attractors, the godmind, just as Gibson predicts. It's pretty to think so, anyway. And both comforting and dismaying that even as postmoderns we still labor under these irresistible delusions."
Possible utopia sculpture
So, I'm real intrigued by this Cyborg Manifesto. I'm not ready to make any assertions about it, but I think I'd like to explore this idea for my final project.
This particular blog entry will contain quotes that I want to keep in mind.
" The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity."
"The cyborg skips the step of original unity, of identification with nature in the Western sense."
"It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without innocence."
"The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential."
" indeed, many branches of feminist culture affirm the pleasure of connection of human and other living creatures."
"The cyborg appears in myth precisely where the boundary between human and animal is transgressed."
"Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert."
"Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile -- a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore. People are nowhere near so fluid, being both material and opaque. Cyborgs are ether, quintessence."
"a cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints."
" Gender, race, or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historica experience of the contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism."
" Painful fragmentation among feminists (not to mention among women) along every possible fault line has made the concept of woman elusive, an excuse for the matrix of women's dominations of each other."
"But sexual object)fication, not alienation, is the consequence of the structure of sex/gender. In the realm of knowledge, the result of sexual objectification is illusion and abstraction. However, a woman is not simply alienated from her product, but in a deep sense does not exist as a subject, or even potential subject, since she owes her existence as a woman to sexual appropriation."
" I am indebted in this story to writers like Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, John Varley, James Tiptree, Jr, Octavia Butler, Monique Wittig, and Vonda McIntyre.23 These are our story-tellers exploring what it means to be embodied in high-tech worlds. They are theorists for cyborgs. Exploring concephons of bodily boundaries and social order, the anthropologist Mary Douglas (1966, 1970) should be credited with helping us to consciousness about how fundamental body imagery is to world view, and so to political language."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg
This particular blog entry will contain quotes that I want to keep in mind.
" The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity."
"The cyborg skips the step of original unity, of identification with nature in the Western sense."
"It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without innocence."
"The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential."
" indeed, many branches of feminist culture affirm the pleasure of connection of human and other living creatures."
"The cyborg appears in myth precisely where the boundary between human and animal is transgressed."
"Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert."
"Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile -- a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore. People are nowhere near so fluid, being both material and opaque. Cyborgs are ether, quintessence."
"a cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints."
" Gender, race, or class consciousness is an achievement forced on us by the terrible historica experience of the contradictory social realities of patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism."
" Painful fragmentation among feminists (not to mention among women) along every possible fault line has made the concept of woman elusive, an excuse for the matrix of women's dominations of each other."
"But sexual object)fication, not alienation, is the consequence of the structure of sex/gender. In the realm of knowledge, the result of sexual objectification is illusion and abstraction. However, a woman is not simply alienated from her product, but in a deep sense does not exist as a subject, or even potential subject, since she owes her existence as a woman to sexual appropriation."
" I am indebted in this story to writers like Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, John Varley, James Tiptree, Jr, Octavia Butler, Monique Wittig, and Vonda McIntyre.23 These are our story-tellers exploring what it means to be embodied in high-tech worlds. They are theorists for cyborgs. Exploring concephons of bodily boundaries and social order, the anthropologist Mary Douglas (1966, 1970) should be credited with helping us to consciousness about how fundamental body imagery is to world view, and so to political language."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg
Thomas Hirschhorn
I was really interested in the interview with Thomas Hirschhorn. It was like everything he said coincided with what I believe about art, yet a thousand times more eloquant and he even went deeper than what I have been treading in.
Unlike a lot of the other readings we've done, I was really pushed to research what this dude has made.
I got a taste from this site : http://www.gladstonegallery.com/hirschhorn.asp?id=1410
It was weird, because I expected us to have real similar aesthetic, but we reallyyy don't. In fact, I have trouble making sense of the works he made- so much clutter! Universal Gym is like on the polar opposite end of what I like art to look like. I generally am not attracted to collections of ready-made objects and shitty craft construction. But, I still love his ideas about the nature of art and would be eager to use him to help me sort and vocalize what I want to do.
Unlike a lot of the other readings we've done, I was really pushed to research what this dude has made.
I got a taste from this site : http://www.gladstonegallery.com/hirschhorn.asp?id=1410
It was weird, because I expected us to have real similar aesthetic, but we reallyyy don't. In fact, I have trouble making sense of the works he made- so much clutter! Universal Gym is like on the polar opposite end of what I like art to look like. I generally am not attracted to collections of ready-made objects and shitty craft construction. But, I still love his ideas about the nature of art and would be eager to use him to help me sort and vocalize what I want to do.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Trying to grasp post-postmodernpseudomodernmetamodernhypermodernaltermodern whatever.
Okay.. So. I thought I understood what was going on in class. I can follow pretty well with the readings and class discussions.
But I feel like as soon as we move on, everything I learn is fleeting away and I'm insecure about what I know again. And now that we've entered the realm of what's going on NOW with art, I'm even more unsure.
And I can't find suitable art images of post-post or psuedo. Whattttt. ?
Let's see.. examples of metamodernist work from
http://www.metamodernism.com/...
Nathalie Djurberg
http://www.metamodernism.com/2011/03/25/metamodern-fables/
http://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/01/strategies-of-the-metamodern/
"The modern is associated with politics as diverse as utopism, formalism, functionalism, seriality, art for art’s sake, the flaneur, syntaxis, restlessness, alienation, streams of consciousness, the cinematic apparatus, cubism, Reason, trauma, mass production, and schizophrenia.
The postmodern tends to be associated with strategies as varied as dystopism, late capitalist flexibilisation, the ‘end of history’, formalism, différance, relativism, irony, pastiche, the waning of affect, consumption, multi-culturalism, deconstruction, poststructuralism, cyberspace, virtualisation, pluralism, parataxis, the ‘unrepresentable’, and interesse."
After that kind of definition I'm starting to grasp it a little more.
But I feel like as soon as we move on, everything I learn is fleeting away and I'm insecure about what I know again. And now that we've entered the realm of what's going on NOW with art, I'm even more unsure.
And I can't find suitable art images of post-post or psuedo. Whattttt. ?
Let's see.. examples of metamodernist work from
http://www.metamodernism.com/...
Nathalie Djurberg
http://www.metamodernism.com/2011/03/25/metamodern-fables/
http://www.metamodernism.com/2010/08/01/strategies-of-the-metamodern/
"The modern is associated with politics as diverse as utopism, formalism, functionalism, seriality, art for art’s sake, the flaneur, syntaxis, restlessness, alienation, streams of consciousness, the cinematic apparatus, cubism, Reason, trauma, mass production, and schizophrenia.
The postmodern tends to be associated with strategies as varied as dystopism, late capitalist flexibilisation, the ‘end of history’, formalism, différance, relativism, irony, pastiche, the waning of affect, consumption, multi-culturalism, deconstruction, poststructuralism, cyberspace, virtualisation, pluralism, parataxis, the ‘unrepresentable’, and interesse."
After that kind of definition I'm starting to grasp it a little more.
Some images of postmodernism (feminist stuff mostly)
Postmodern examples from Intro to Pomo.
Josef Beuys- Installation
Andy Warhol- Pop art
Postmodern feminism
Judith Butler's book, Gender Trouble-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Trouble
Barbara Kruger
Cyborg Feminism?
The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Harawat, which I have yet to read. I'm really interested in this, to think that someone actually reallyyyy got into this idea. It seems extremist, but I wonder how "out there" it is.
"The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
"Up till now (once upon a time), female embodiment seemed to be given, organic, necessary; and female embodiment seemed to mean skill in mothering and its metaphoric extensions. Only by being out of place could we take intense pleasure in machines, and then with excuses that this was organic activity after all, appropriate to females" "I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess" (She does not separate herself from ecofeminist values either apparently)
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
Madonna as "Cyber girl'
Guerilla Girls
Josef Beuys- Installation
Andy Warhol- Pop art
Postmodern feminism
Judith Butler's book, Gender Trouble-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Trouble
Barbara Kruger
Cyborg Feminism?
The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Harawat, which I have yet to read. I'm really interested in this, to think that someone actually reallyyyy got into this idea. It seems extremist, but I wonder how "out there" it is.
"The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
"Up till now (once upon a time), female embodiment seemed to be given, organic, necessary; and female embodiment seemed to mean skill in mothering and its metaphoric extensions. Only by being out of place could we take intense pleasure in machines, and then with excuses that this was organic activity after all, appropriate to females" "I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess" (She does not separate herself from ecofeminist values either apparently)
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
Madonna as "Cyber girl'
Guerilla Girls
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