TechnoMorphica
Collection of essays on the merging of the biological with the technological.
Editors: Joke Brouwer and Carla Hoekendijk
Issued: 1997
Type: Paperback, illustrated, full color
Pages: 368
Language: Dutch and EnglishDimensions: 23 x 16 cm
ISBN: 90-6617-186-3
Price: € 10
Design: Joke Brouwer
With: Louis Bec, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Stefaan Decostere, Manuel DeLanda, Mark Dery, Jozef Keulartz, Knowbotic Research, Detlef Linke, Humberto Maturana, Wim Nijenhuis, Lars Spuybroek, Stelarc, Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, Paul Virilio.
Will technomorphization – the reorganization of the organic based on the intelligent machine model – become the dominant process of our age? Has evolution entered a technological scientific phase in which humans no longer develop in natural ways, in which the human body instead adapts itself to the parameters of a technological era?
In this book, fourteen internationally acclaimed authors give their views on this blurring of borders and the fusion of the biological with the technological. It offers ideas on angels and robots, viruses and mad cows, a world where machines are anthromorphized and humans technomorphized. If the glare of our monitors is all that illuminates us, is it time to build a museum for the sun?
“A body capable of incorporating movement that from moment to moment would be a pure machinic motion performed with neither memory nor desire ...”
Essays
- Stelarc: Parasite Visions
- Manuel Delanda: The Machinic Phylum
- Knowbotic Research: The Urban as Field of Action
- Gerburg Treusch-Dieter: Caught in the Net; from Limb-Machine to Cyborg
- Wim Nijenhuis: Assault and Absence
- Mark Dery: An extremely Complicated Phenomenon of a Very Brief Duration Ending in Destruction: The 20th Century as Slow-Motion Car Crash
- Kertin Dautenhahn: Life, Intelligence and other Dangerous Constructions of Mind and Matter
- Detlef Linke: Theoids, Androids and Clonoids
- Stefaan Decostere: Angels in Hell - Benjamin in Cyber
- Louis Bec: Squids, Elements of Technozoosemiotics
- Jozef Keulartz: Primitive Imagination in Mechanical Metaphors
- Paul Virilio: The Museum of the Sun
- Lars Spuybroek: Motor Geometry
- Humberto Maturana: Metadesign
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A program on Neuro-babies (interactive artificial babies) with the work Neuro Kid 'MIC' by Naoko Tosa (J), and a presentation by Gerburg Treusch-Dieter (D); moderated by Karin Spaink (NL).
The bookpresentation of "TechnoMorphica" with participating authors Stelarc (AUS), Detlef Linke (D) and Melle Daamen (NL).
Lars Spuybroek is Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Stefaan Decostere (BE) makes media installations and produces documentaries for television . His programs on video art, dance and technology aim to establish a critical platform for discussing current developments in image, media and technological ...
Paul Virilio (FR) is an essayist, philosopher and media critic - with a special interest in urbanism and the strategic implications of new technologies.
Kerstin Dautenhahn (DE/UK) is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot interaction.
Mark Dery (US) is a cultural critic, who coined the terms "afrofuturism" and "culture jamming".
Jozef Keulartz (NL) is a philosopher concerned with the critical appraisal of radical ecology.
Gerburg Treusch-Dieter (DE) (1939-2006) is a theorist and researcher on gender issues.
knowbotic research sees the transformation of the public sphere as ongoing process.
"Squids, elementen van de techno-zoösemiotiek. Een les in fabulatoire epistemologie van het Wetenschappelijk Instituut voor Paranaturalistisch Onderzoek" is the Dutch translation of an essay by Louis Bec, for "Technomporphica" (1997).
Dutch version of an essay by Jozef Keulartz for "TechnoMorphica," 1997.
This is the original HTML-page with the text of the presentation of V2_ at dX (Documenta X) in Kassel on 21 August 1997.
Dutch translation of an essay by Mark Dery, published in "Technomorphica" (1997)
Translation of a text by Kerstin Dautenhahn from the 1997 publication "TechnoMorphica."
Dutch translation of an essay by Detlef Linke for the publication "TechnoMorphica," 1997.
Dutch version of essay by Stefaan Decostere for "TechnoMorphica," 1997.
Dutch translation of a essay by Gerburg Treusch-Dieter for "TechnoMorphica," 1997.
In the weekend of 9-10 April 2011 researchers and artists meet at V2_ to discuss the fundamental theoretical division between "living" and "non-living".
Introduction to the publication "TechnoMorphica" that was edited and published by V2_ in 1997.
Interview with Knowbotic Research by Andreas Broeckmann, Cologne, 24th January 1997, published in 'TechnoMorphica'.
Essay by Gerburg Treusch-Dieter for "TechnoMorphica," 1997.
Essay by Mark Dery for "TechnoMorphica," 1997.
Text by Kerstin Dautenhahn from the 1997 publication "TechnoMorphica."
Squids, Elements of Technozoosemiotics. A Lesson in Fabulatory Epistemology of The Scientific Institute For Paranatural Research is an essay by Louis Bec published in "TechnoMorphica," 1997.
On July 7th a new series of events at V2_ kicks off with Wild Things. What's in the archive that is related to this?
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