This rapid-fire model of designing technology appeals to the personal needs of the consumer truth that anything new is interesting. Despite the belief that advancement makes our lives easier, the reality is that soon we will be incapable of achieving even the simplest of tasks on our own. As is evolving at William Gibson asserts, “Our hardware the speed of light, while we are still the product, for the most part, of unskilled labor.” The unceasing flow of new upgraded products makes anything slightly out of date easy to cast aside and contributes to the massive amounts of electronic refuse that will overrun the world in the future. New technologies implanting computers into the human body shows that man is not satisfied by simply using technology, but are integrating their bodies with it as well. These processes are not for medical, but recreational uses, which brings humanity one step closer to the path of trans-humanism and the resulting future of post-humanism. What will that future be? As an artist, I created a body of works that are a interpretation of my observations within our current, human culture. In the future as I imagine it, technology and humanity become so interchangeable that the lines the two are blurred, broken and erased in a very literal sense. The beings I depict are composed more of tubes, wires, and digital apparatus than of flesh and blood. some may view it as nightmarish, it is my idea that man will inevitably become enveloped by machinery rather than use it for advancement. In my works, I strive to create daily portraits in the vein of Fantastic Realism. Life and landscape within these works are of a future where all needs are met by a that envelops the world as we know it. A similar view is expressed by Christopher Dewdney in humans continue to interconnect, and the power of Last Flesh: “As
This rapid-fire model of designing technology appeals to the personal needs of the consumer truth that anything new is interesting. Despite the belief that advancement makes our lives easier, the reality is that soon we will be incapable of achieving even the simplest of tasks on our own. As William Gibson asserts, “Our hardware is evolving at the speed of light, while we are still the product, for the most part, of unskilled labor.” The unceasing flow of new upgraded products makes anything slightly out of date easy to cast aside and contributes to the massive amounts of electronic refuse that will overrun the world in the future. New technologies implanting computers into the human body shows that man is not satisfied by simply using technology, but are integrating their bodies with it as well. These processes are not for medical, but recreational uses, which brings humanity one step closer to the path of trans-humanism and the resulting future of post-humanism. What will that future be? As an artist, I created a body of works that are a interpretation of my observations within our current, human culture. In the future as I imagine it, technology and humanity become so interchangeable that the lines the two are blurred, broken and erased in a very literal sense. The beings I depict are composed more of tubes, wires, and digital apparatus than of flesh and blood. some may view it as nightmarish, it is my idea that man will inevitably become enveloped by machinery rather than use it for advancement. In my works, I strive to create daily portraits in the vein of Fantastic Realism. Life and landscape within these works are of a future where all needs are met by a that envelops the world as we know it. A similar view is expressed by Christopher Dewdney in Last Flesh: “As humans continue to interconnect, and the power of
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