2014年11月30日 星期日

Technologised Bodies

     First of all,I think the technologised bodies are more popular than ten years ago.It is because the technology is improving time by time ,the latest advancement give us a brand-new vision on how the technology helps humans.Our bodies can be enhanced by different technologies such as cyberbody,inter-skin suits,stelarc,ping body and Inter-Discommunication Machine.These technologised bodies are the famous example in the history.


     Technologised Bodies provides an opportunity to those disable people become a normal person. Technologised Bodies enhance their ability and help them overcome the original limitations.It is because the bodies were investigated in two ways - Computer & Biotechnology. The technology gives us the power to expose the human bodies potential in artificial methods.There are a lot of examples in this kind of technologised bodies such as cyborg,prosthesis,the inter - skin system.


The description of inter - skin system

       In today class,teacher shows us a cyprus-born performance artist Stelarc. He performances in a lot of ways such a third cell - cultivated ear implantation surgery in his left arm,corporate with a pneumatic six-legged spider-like walking machine and control the machine by the arm gestures.I think Stelarc is very brave to practice his own idea on technologised bodies and he takes risk on putting the ear in his arm.This behavior just tell us Stelarc uses his own body to project the vision of what technologised bodies are and his thought on behavior art. Stelarc knows he needs to prove the technologised bodies are worth to allocate into a kind of art and finally he uses his body parts becoming a “hub” or “media” to transport the information of technologised bodies.This action brings other attentions and the curious about this topic - technologies bodies.It is a great method to promote the art on technologised bodies and the ideas behind different performance artists.
 

Photo of the third cell - cultivated ear


Photo of the cyborg 


        Besides,I watched a online video about a teenager wearing the technologised body “Touchy”.“Touchy” is a human camera and wore by a young man.If there is someone touches the young man’s skin,he can see the world outside.“Touchy” is produced by a concept.“Touchy” is all about the experiment between the relationships of giving and taking by transforming a human into a camera.When somebody touches the skin of “Touchy” user,the “Touchy” turn on and become able to see or take photos.The photos show what the young man can saw though the “Touchy” and save the amazing moments.
  
        In my opinion,the “Touchy” video clip shows how important the human interaction is and the disadvantages about humans depending on the social network Facebook,Sina,Twitter for communication.The human connection should not be limited by any of the electronic devices or social networks.It should be using the face - to - face way to talk to others,not just typing on the keyboard.I get the ideas from the “Touchy” video clip because there is a part that a girl touches the boy and playing around the Tokyo.The girl is a completely stranger to the boy but the girl still touches the boy.This action indicates the first - person connection is so important in human social life,it just cannot replaced by the internet or apps.I think the human interaction needs actual face - to - face communication and also the way using the internet.Two human communication and connection types should be balanced.I believe that we should increase the percentage of using the physical communication in our daily life.

Touchy



Bibliography:
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies:
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KeDg77S28LwC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=technologized+bodies+example&source=bl&ots=5ezuz-1P_6&sig=an4fMWJ41qCtvWQB3kOWweBrL7o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z9NxVImTFoOG8QWN64HwBQ&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=technologized%20bodies%20example&f=false (Retrieved Nov 18, 2014)

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