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    Cyborg Bodies

    The End of the Progressive Body

    Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS) (bis 2019)

    “Cyborg Bodies: The End of the Progressive Body” takes artistic reflections and realisations of cyborgs as its starting point for exploring the specific contribution of art to the discourses on the future body and (human) subjects.

    The project regards cyborgs not merely as cybernetic organisms, i.e. as human-machine aggregates, as they are generally defined, but rather as fantasies of hybrid, monstrous, machine-like, cloned, digital, integrated, cellular, or transgenic bodies. Essentially, “Cyborg Bodies” thus include all notions of the body as a conglomerate, artistic, and novel entity.

    Details

    • Research Focus
      • FSP Kulturanalyse in den Künsten (bis 2019)
    • Project Lead
      • Yvonne Volkart (ICS (bis 2019))
    • Team
      • Jennifer John (ICS (bis 2019))
    • Cooperations
      • Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes
      • Dieter Daniels, ZKM Karlsruhe
      • Rudolf Frieling, ZKM Karlsruhe
    • Duration

      01.10.2002 – 30.06.2004

    • Financing
      • Präsidialdepartement der Stadt Zürich
      • Pro Helvetia
      • ZHdK
      • ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie
    • Research Approaches
      • Basic research
      • Scientific research
    • Disciplines

      Fine Arts