The Body as Interface
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EVENT
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presentation
Keywords:
artificial / body / cyborg / desire / gender / identity / individual / interface / memory
Creation Date:
2007-03-16
Language:
English
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Description:
Groundless - one of Flusser's keywords to describe a mode of human being in the world - this groundlessness experiences these days a kind of dramatization. In different ways groundlessness can be taken as metaphor for our being in the world, which is accompanied by an ongoing process of becoming other. And this being and becoming other has been amplified or in a way "doubled" by the New Technologies, which are supposed to represent something totally different, but a difference which reveals by the same time the mechanisms and structures of our "old" identity.
The body as interface alludes exactly to those two antagonistic drives - to be and to become other - and the site of this fight, the site of these struggles is the "interfacial nature" of the human´s subjectivity as an intersubjective one. (M-L.A.)
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Original Title (English):
The Body as Interface
Location:
Budapest, Műcsarnok, Törley-terem / Kunsthalle, Törley Hall
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