![]() ![]() This new setting has powerfully connected millions of people, but the disembodied nature of these interactions also facilitates dehumanization. ![]() Before we enter a generation where cyborgs are as ubiquitous as the internet, in a time when we still inhabit human bodies, the urgent questions to ask are what lessons can our mortal vessels teach us and what unknown paradox might we contain?ĭisembodied environments for interaction have proliferated with the emergence of social media, which have provided endless opportunities for social life to play out in virtual space, with no physical contact. Their various investigations across multiple media offer room to speculate about the exchange between the unconscious and conscious, and ask questions about what the body knows. As technologists imagine the potentials of merging humans with AI, these artists consider the body’s elusive and underestimated power. ![]() But beneath this thin “veneer of human thought” is a deeper, more complex knowledge system within the body. Society tends to privilege reason and logic because it is conscious and quantifiable. Inspired by the Moravec Paradox, the show looks deeper into the unconscious role the body’s sensorimotor habitat has in shaping our awareness, imagination, and socio-political structures. This exhibition explores the primacy of the human body as it’s poised on the precipice of a potential fusion with artificial intelligence. ![]()
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