Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Superhuman, looks for a revolution - Steve Middleton


Image: Steve Middleton (reproduced here with his kind permission)

Steve said: I made the image after reading you were going to the Anat workshop about the species in revolution. I recall I argued at a similar workshop that revolutions are a bit queer the image reflects my preoccupation with what happens after the revolution? :)s
It's good to see that Steve's rather cybernetic superhuman, is like Rodin's The Thinker still pondering its own existence.

Dr Steven Middleton is an artist working in the fields of robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. He has worked on robot design, prototypes and animations for Stelarc. He completed his PhD on The Limited Study of Mechanical Intelligence as Media at RMIT in 2007.



Monday, September 7, 2009

HeLa- a new species?

HeLa
Some researchers have proposed the Hela as a new species in its own right: the name proposed has been “Helacyton gartleri”.

Friday, September 4, 2009

Super Human: Revolution of the Species

With support by ANAT (who approved my application) and with funding from the University of Melbourne, I will be attending the "Super Human: Revolution of the Species" Masterclass being held in Melbourne 25-26 November, 2009 at Federation Square.
Masterclass is being conducted by: Erich Berger, Oron Catts, Kathy Cleland, Sarah Cook, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Tina Gonsalves, Jens Hauser, Douglas Kahn, George Poonkhin Khut, Kim Machan, Lizzie Muller, Angela Main, Christiane Pau, Helen Stuckey and Paul Thomas.
http://www.superhuman.org.au/

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Just being human...

Posthuman? Just being human is hard enough!