Blog Presentation - Technologized Bodies

To what extent are we already experiencing a man -machine symbiosis that has turned us into cyborgs?" The Technology is improving day by day, time by time. It is amazing that many artists have put different kinds of technology into their art works. recently, many artists have put such technology into human bodies, such as Stelarc and Kazuhiko Hachiya. In order to identify this kind of digital works, ‘technologized body’ has become the name of the type. In technologized bodies, ‘cyborg’ means a person whose physical abilities are extended beyond human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.(1. )Moreover, ‘posthuman’ is also a term of technologized bodies used by Jeffrey Deitch, among others, to suggest that humans are entering a new phase of evolution in which biotechnology and computer science will give us the power to reconstruct and extend human bodies in artificial ways that take us far beyond biological evolution” (2)Yet, there are many questions to raise about if it is suitable for us to become mechanical human. It is said that "In an era where technological innovations are appearing at an ever increasing pace the future of the human body is thrown into question. Art that makes its business keeping up with emerging technologies becomes an important arena to consider the outcomes of these advances.” (3)Art that makes its business keeping up with emerging technologies becomes an important arena to consider the outcomes of these advances.” Our future is still an unknown of the combination of human and machine, because we used to separate art and technology in making an art work. The technology has got involved not only in our daily life, but also in art. In the digital art, It is believed that "technologized body" will be continuous to grow rapidly as the science and technology has the greatest improvement and its will never stop. Cyborg may refer to cyber organisms. One of the important theorists in "technologized body",Katherine Hayles, says in her book, How We Became Posthuman that “increasingly the question is not whether we will become posthuman, for posthumanity is already here. Rather, the question is what kind of posthumans we will be.” (4) Works of technologized bodies are getting more and more, we couldn't even escape it. Sooner or later we will become part of the machine of the machine will become part of us. (5) In the following case study, I'm going to introduce one of the important technologized bodies which is called Inter-Discommunication Machine by Kazuhiko Hachiya.








It is believed that Inter-Discommunication is a kind of stimulation game produced by a Japanese artist, Kazuhiko Hachiya in 1993.

1. Origin 1960s:blend of cyber - and organism
2. J. Robertson and C. McDaniel, Themes of Contemporary Art, 150-151
3.Christiane Paul, Digital Art, p 166
4.The Technologized Body, http://www.lacda.com/exhibits/technobody.html
5. Christiane Paul, Digital Art, p 166