Techno-imagination of the Body in the Era of Technosciences. Contemporary Art and Utopia of Transformation
Narratives, arts, performances participate in « to put in culture » technosciences by supplying some keys of interpretation, reflection, provocation. The characteristic of technosciences is especially the creation of a « techno-imagination » which, in a very significant way, seems to develop around the body as a place of experiment and transformation of life and organic and also as a place of construction of new different forms of identity. The article aims to analyze the relationship between certain trends in contemporary art and some utopias of the body which underlie the practices of human enhancement, transhumanist perspectives, ideology of the convergent technologies. Between fascination of a future body and « subversive » visions of modification proposed by a part of contemporary artists, the possibilities « to create a new moral vision » of posthumanism remain completely open.