Rewriting the Body
This paper aims to problematize what could be considered as a post-hominization imaginary, by exposing its formal contents as it appears in biotech art works. Regarding this imaginary, we explore the potential alteration of the human identity boundaries as they can occur in a times of technoscience. In order to illustrate the hypothesis of a technical genesis of human evolution, we introduce some summary tables, with particular types of artistical forms of potential body (cyborgs, clones, bio-mutant self-hybrid) in relation with 1. paradigmatic cases in engineering, genetics and medicine that weave the imagination of artists biotech, 2. the technologies most often used, 3. the fields of biology and related non-biological. Finally, we consider the close relationship between scientists and artists that implies this specific kind of art.