Cybernetic Art:
These key artists have focused their works on the close interface between the organic and robotic, as a means for commenting on transhumanism, the relationship between man and machine in the current digital age, and philosophical questions of what differentiates the organic mind from the robotic.
STELARC (“http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/arcx.html“)
STELARC has done multiple performance art pieces in which he directly interfaces his own nervous system with robotics to allow him to directly manipulate the machine, or allow the machine to directly manipulate his own body. The intent is to push ideas of transhumanism and the idea of the obselescence of the human body.
Steve Mann (“http://wearcam.org/steve.html“)
Used wearable computing as a digital prosthetic for augmenting one’s life. Coined the term sousveillance to describe the use of lifelogging cameras as a counter to surveillance.
symbioticA (“http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/“)
“MEART”
(“http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au/“)
symbioticA’s MEART is a device that interfaces machine with living brain cells to create a Semi-Living artist.