PROSTHETICS: TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN
Talk at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Sunday 9 March 2003, 16.00.
Organised in collaboration with Mediactive at Middlesex University
How are we to understand the impact of new developments in technology
(artificial life, cybernetics, genomics, nanotechnology) on the way in
which we experience and understand our bodies? Is the body's relation
to these technologies a prosthetic one? Are they simply instruments,
mere tools? Or is technology part of our human nature, at work at the
very
heart of the body and soul, and thus fundamentally disturbing to our
sense of what it is to be human? Sue Golding (also known as johnny de
philo), Professor of Philosophy in the Visual Arts and Communication
Technologies at the University of Greenwich, and Charlie Gere (Birkbeck
College), art historian and author of Digital Culture, discuss some of
the key issues concerning the relation between technology and the human.
They are joined by the artist Stelarc, Principal Research Fellow in the
Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University (and showing at the
ICA this week), and cultural theorist Joanna Zylinska (University of
Surrey Roehampton), editor of the recent collection on Stelarc, The
Cyborg Experiments. The event is chaired by Gary Hall (Middlesex
University), founding co-editor of the online journal Culture Machine
and author of Culture in Bits.
Venue: Nash Room.
Full Price : £6.
Concessions : £5.
ICA Members : £4.
ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
To book tickets, telephone: 020 7930 3647
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Dr Joanna Zylinska
Reviews Editor for Culture Machine, http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies
School of Humanities and Cultural Studies
University of Surrey Roehampton
Digby Stuart College
Roehampton Lane
London SW15 5PH
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