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| Interactive Kinetic Steampunk Sculptures by Marque Cornblatt |
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For centuries the use of tools by humans has
been used as a marker - one of several gauges
of that particular quality that define humans
as unique and self-aware beings. Over the
millennia, the development and use of certain
tools has effected the quality of life so
profoundly, that one can scarcely imagine
life without their use. Language, social
structures, medicine, electricity, mass
communication.
There exists in our culture the promise of
technological solutions to every need,
problem and issue associated with the human
condition, from the basic needs of food and
shelter, to more sophisticated requirements
of the human animal - fast food, financial
credit, internet dating, artificial hearts,
and MTV. Attempts to meet these needs with
technology comes in a variety of forms - from
AT & T providing lengthy and complex
exchanges of information without the customer
ever speaking with a live operator, to
computer controlled medical implants
monitoring and performing an increasing
number of metabolic and physiological
functions in the human body.
The conceptual cornerstones of "that which
makes humans unique" continue to be
challenged and defeated. Internally, in the
case of medical advancements, and externally
- as demonstrated by the increasing number of
"human" interactions which no longer have two
humans participating. Identity and
self-awareness are no longer the exclusive
terrain of human beings. We live in the age
of the "transhuman" being.
Tags : steampunk transhuman technology dirosa art robot srl moma paik Marque Cornblatt Interactive Kinetic Sculptures |
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Durée : 121 s |
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