Art – End World
Art after the end of the world
International colloquium. 2018.
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. México.
Master Conference: Of the human and the posthuman. Art and new technologies. Photography, film, video, computing, robotics.
“In the midst of the surrounding barbarism, art in the era of nihilism is characterized by its diversity, its radicality and its inexhaustible fecundity. Installation, performance, the leading role of the body and nature, gender issues, presence of new technologies, the deployment of photography, cinema and video art, computer science and robotics […] All this has to be thoroughly discussed in order to outline an art without borders. ” presentation of the Colloquium.
In 1960, in NASA’s program of exploration of the cosmos, the physiologist Manfred Clynes and the psychiatrist Nathan Kline coined the term “cyborg”, from the union of cybernetic and organism, as a human entity that could be mechanically optimized to support the extreme conditions of outer space. The objective of NASA was the search for automatic systems to enhance the vital organs of the individual and make possible the modifications of their psychophysical constants to strengthen the organism …
