Splice
Stainless steel, plastic tubes, air pump, electronic components
2020
The installation is an audience-controlled interactive robot, with a performer leading the experience.
The process of mRNA splicing pertains to the cutting and pasting pieces of our cells’ information transmission codes. Splice enmeshes a human organism with a robotic body, thereby generating a cyborg, without interfering with genetics. Spiders perceive sound through their legs, and this project enquired as to what would occur if we built on human perception via technology, incorporating a human within a synthetic creature.
What is a biological body? The point at which a human and a robot are infused into a coherent and indistinguishable entity – a cyborg – may comprise the last stage of evolutionary development. The realisation of such an entity as an evolutionary conclusion may produce emancipation from a range of social inequities, countering gender, race. and sexual inequality.
This installation challenges common notions of the interlinks between and among human nature, the natural world, and technology. It also explores the ways that these interlinks impact on our subjectivity and our psyche. It creates a post-human, cyborg-driven scenario set in a transcendent, non-specific time in the future, in which we will be able to select our own organic bodies thanks to technological innovation.
Stainless steel, plastic tubes, air pump, electronic components
2020
The installation is an audience-controlled interactive robot, with a performer leading the experience.
The process of mRNA splicing pertains to the cutting and pasting pieces of our cells’ information transmission codes. Splice enmeshes a human organism with a robotic body, thereby generating a cyborg, without interfering with genetics. Spiders perceive sound through their legs, and this project enquired as to what would occur if we built on human perception via technology, incorporating a human within a synthetic creature.
What is a biological body? The point at which a human and a robot are infused into a coherent and indistinguishable entity – a cyborg – may comprise the last stage of evolutionary development. The realisation of such an entity as an evolutionary conclusion may produce emancipation from a range of social inequities, countering gender, race. and sexual inequality.
This installation challenges common notions of the interlinks between and among human nature, the natural world, and technology. It also explores the ways that these interlinks impact on our subjectivity and our psyche. It creates a post-human, cyborg-driven scenario set in a transcendent, non-specific time in the future, in which we will be able to select our own organic bodies thanks to technological innovation.