Season 4 Ep 11 - Part 1: DIRECTING OUR EVOLUTION THROUGH ROBOTICS?
EPISODE 11: DIRECTING OUR OWN EVOLUTION THROUGH ROBOTICS?
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PART 1
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What does it mean to evolve? How is technology redefining the human condition, reshaping the human body and even redesigning our environments? Talking Robotics, we sit down with performance artist and pioneer Stelarc who has been extending the capabilities of his body through cybernetic intervention since the 1980s, and artist Neil Harbisson, the world’s first registered cyborg, advocate for Cyborg Rights and co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation, to discuss the body as an evolutionary architecture. Can we direct our own evolution through Robotics? Extending the operational capabilities and functionality of not only ourselves, but our environments too? These artists think so… Watch to see how they are experimenting with alternative bodily architectures and augmenting their perceptions of reality through color-sensing antennae, third ears, and more. Will we all design ourselves in the future?
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ART+TECHNOLOGY is brought to you by Hyundai Motor Company and produced in partnership with Bloomberg Media Group.
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PART 1
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What does it mean to evolve? How is technology redefining the human condition, reshaping the human body and even redesigning our environments? Talking Robotics, we sit down with performance artist and pioneer Stelarc who has been extending the capabilities of his body through cybernetic intervention since the 1980s, and artist Neil Harbisson, the world’s first registered cyborg, advocate for Cyborg Rights and co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation, to discuss the body as an evolutionary architecture. Can we direct our own evolution through Robotics? Extending the operational capabilities and functionality of not only ourselves, but our environments too? These artists think so… Watch to see how they are experimenting with alternative bodily architectures and augmenting their perceptions of reality through color-sensing antennae, third ears, and more. Will we all design ourselves in the future?
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ART+TECHNOLOGY is brought to you by Hyundai Motor Company and produced in partnership with Bloomberg Media Group.
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