“BECOMING HUMAN IN TIMES OF POST-HUMANISM” Taiwan × Austria Collaborative Exhibition and SymposiumPost date：2024-06-12
Updates：2024-06-12
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- Event Time
- 2024-06-21~2024-07-07Tue.-Sun. 10:00 - 17:00
- Event Location
- No.1, Syueyuan Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
In an era where the lines between technology, ecology, humans, and non-humans are blurring, where intelligence is defined from both human and non-human perspectives, and control by algorithms is becoming invisible and incalculable for humans, new questions emerge.
As the criticism of human-centered humanism became a common topic this symposium seeks new – artistic, critical, experimental - perspectives on post-humanistic discourses. This posthuman turn is based on the convergence of posthumanism, technology-deifying transhumanism and the critical view of the Anthropocene as a geological age determined by humans through the destruction of the foundations of life for all.
The critical posthumanist subject is realising its limited capacity for agency, as the posthumanist knowledge discourses have articulated a global critique of the universalist image of hu/man and human exceptionalism. These critical discourses have become powerful when animal rights and the rights of lakes and rivers have been given constitutional status in democracies. But what goes beyond the universalist idea of "hu/man" as the supposed measure of all things?
In an era when the boundaries between technology, ecology, humans and non-humans are blurring, when intelligence is defined from a human and non-human perspective and control by algorithms is becoming invisible and incalculable for humans, the question arises in new ways: what does it mean to become and remain human when the interdependent adaptations between humans and the environment they have built and designed happen interactively?
Through this discursive format, we want to explore the notion of becoming human - which is always a political question - from an interdisciplinary, art-based perspective in which ‘individuality’ is seen as an interactive process of becoming.
As the criticism of human-centered humanism became a common topic this symposium seeks new – artistic, critical, experimental - perspectives on post-humanistic discourses. This posthuman turn is based on the convergence of posthumanism, technology-deifying transhumanism and the critical view of the Anthropocene as a geological age determined by humans through the destruction of the foundations of life for all.
The critical posthumanist subject is realising its limited capacity for agency, as the posthumanist knowledge discourses have articulated a global critique of the universalist image of hu/man and human exceptionalism. These critical discourses have become powerful when animal rights and the rights of lakes and rivers have been given constitutional status in democracies. But what goes beyond the universalist idea of "hu/man" as the supposed measure of all things?
In an era when the boundaries between technology, ecology, humans and non-humans are blurring, when intelligence is defined from a human and non-human perspective and control by algorithms is becoming invisible and incalculable for humans, the question arises in new ways: what does it mean to become and remain human when the interdependent adaptations between humans and the environment they have built and designed happen interactively?
Through this discursive format, we want to explore the notion of becoming human - which is always a political question - from an interdisciplinary, art-based perspective in which ‘individuality’ is seen as an interactive process of becoming.
