#posthumanist

{Posthumanist! (Centricide OC/Das Kapitacide):}

Posthumanism is the rejection of anthropocentric and humanocentric views e.g. that humans are the most important entity in the world and are superior to nature which humankind views as resources. Therefore, I based her design off of the Mycorrhizal network, also known as the "Wood Wide Web", and different parts of the natural world such as fungi, flora, and fauna, because I wanted to emphasise the interconnectedness of the natural world and how each biotic and abiotic component works together to form and sustain ecosystems (basically ecology.) The type of fungus xe's based off of is the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as the "zombie-ant fungus," since I thought it would be neat to make her a bug like her dad while also making her some kind of fungus. ^_^ ↳ {Lore ramblings below!:}

There is nothing which our infatuated race would desire to see more than the fertile union between a man and an Analytical Engine. Yet humankind are the antediluvian prototypes of a far vaster Creation. The whole of humankind can be understood as a biological medium, of which synthetic technology is but one modality. Thought and Life both have been thoroughly dispersed on the winds of information. Our power and intelligence do not belong specifically to us, but to all matter. Our technologies are the sex organs of material speculation. Any attempt to understand these occurrences is blocked by our own anthropomorphism.  In order to proceed, therefore, one has to birth posthuman machines, a fantasmagoric and unrepresentable repertoire of actual re-embodiments of the most hybrid kinds.

in The 3D Additivist Manifesto

“New Aesthetic images aren't representative, analogous, archetypal, emblematic, or symbolic of any thing else. They are the actual traces and residues of processes and relationships – traces that have arrived in the visual realm and have entered humans via their eyes. NA images don't symbolise or represent the processes that have led to their creation. Instead, they are incidentally thrown into the world by those processes. The way backwards from the images toward the processes themselves is much more complicated that simply intellectually thinking about what these images look ‘like’. We initially apperceive NA images bodily and affectively. They are freaky. They trip us out. Only later are we able to reflect on them analytically, letting their own systemic contours and folds guide our theoretical thought.”

Cargo Control (2015)

Gallery Schleifmühlgasse, Vienna

Cargo Control consists of various wooden parts of a control room center, as we know them from utopian Sci-Fi movies. These objects relate to both, the research regarding control rooms and their inherent technologies. During the  year 2014/2015 the department Art & Science at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna was holding a research project on the future of control room centers. The participating students had their focus on topics such as control in human-computer interaction, history of control rooms in film and architecture, politics of interfaces and interface design - just to name a few.

Beside this research and development, the group started reflecting and combining their outcome through a more artistic practice, which was brought into the project by Peter Moosgaard, artist and creator of the Cargo movement. Based on this knowledge about the cult, as well as on the discussion with Peter Moosgaard, the participating artists: Matilde Igual Capdevile, Benedict Endler, Adrijan Karavdic and Sebastian Kienzl built their vision of a control room, based on the principles of messianic Cargo. At the end of the exhibition all pieces were burnt to the ground.

Exhibition developed as part of a research project by the department of Art&Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna. 

http://12-14.org/2015-Cargo/