The body can 'fall'
the post-human aesthetics.
We can no longer believe that the internet will become a window for us to understand the world. It’s already bigger than the world. Combining humans and machines is not a faraway-science-fiction-future, but a current reality that cracks the physical body code.
Throughout time, human condition has been investigated by art, literature, science and anthropology. However, the internet has made it possible for us to give up our embodied version in order to achieve another perception of our own identity.
Filters, avatars, virtual companions, immersive realities… all of it is defining the scenario for a future where humans and technology fluidly merge. Along with these new alternatives, there is disembodiement, a way to recreate life starting with your on-line body — in which you can have a new image and brand-new senses.
DISEMBODIEMENT IS THE IDEA THAT ONCE THE ONLINE BODY IS BEING, THE PHYSICAL ONE IS NO LONGER NECESSARY.
The institutionalisation of the cyborg aesthetic allows the comprehension of new ideas through the connection among different — yet similar — bodies in expansion, and these new interactions happen via web. It is also where we’ve began to understand each other as a mediation of ourselves. Such awareness is extremely important because of what has allowed us to initiate gender and beauty patterns discussions: just how intense physical representation can get. However, if there are tabus that still haven’t surpassed reality, we can take them to an imagined resolution in the virtual existence.
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Thus the immersive self is entirely manipulable, it can become the most intense expression of our personality. Would you like an example? Then follow @cece.grace. It is very likely that the physycal CeCe already has lots of identity, but a manipulation of the scenario makes the body more than just theatrical. Delivering images become an experience and even a stronger message than speech itself.
@cece_grace
@cece_grace
That’s where lies the possibility to end an on-line dilemma. The artificiality of our limited scope (physical bodies available) has never given us the possibility of changes we want to show society — at least not this fast.
Take for example the liberation of the feminine body. Vitória Cribb is an artist who has as one of the pillars of her work the investigation of female patterns in society. Through 3D, she can take it beyond guidelines rationalization and, for that, integrate a world vision.
Vitória Cribb and @mutantboard
“I believe that the possibility to explore conceptual construction of a human image that has been consolidated and dated by media sphere instigates me to visually represent something so close to reality and yet so apart from our physical integrity, and to conceptually investigate social roles of black and feminine bodies similarly to technological existences/consciences explored for growth in an accelerated and hyperproductive society.” Artist interview for kura arte.
Society is on the edge of a revolution that will change human identity and behavior by means of digital platforms that are unlocking such paths. We’re moving towards reading the world through our digital self, in which we are going to start a new, unlimited and fluid language in a post-human aesthetic. Forget the old future because another one might as well come from a version of yourself that you don’t even know yet.
