Contemporânea#010
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more-than-human — perspectives on technology and futurity critically analyse from various perspectives not only the use of technology as a capitalist device and tool but also its impact on human existence. Reflecting on the complex relationship between these two realms, the films explore the interchangeability between the natural and the artificial, the robotic and the organic, and the tensions that arise from these processes.
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Over the past two decades, the radical transformation and/or transcendence of the human condition through technology have given rise to profound ethical and philosophical enquiries. From a theoretical standpoint, this involves contemplating the advantages and risks associated with personal identity, emerging forms of otherness, equality and social justice, death and immortality, as well as religion and the meaning of life. From a practical perspective, artificial intelligence and human-machine hybridisation raise ethical concerns pertaining to physical, cognitive, and moral enhancement, as well as issues related to defence and security.
God, human, or more-than-human? A future of technological transcendence through biohacking, cognitive optimisation, and other biomedical technologies aims at overcoming the physical dimension—the expansion and preservation of consciousness into a new biological-artificial body. Technology operates as a promise of omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience: in other words, immortality.
Artists: Alexandre Estrela; Alice dos Reis; Alison Nguyen; AnaMary Bilbao; Andreia Santana; Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme; Cao Fei; Cécile B. Evans; Diogo Evangelista; Gabriel Abrantes; Igor Jesus; Isadora Neves Marques; Lou Cantor; Miguel Soares; Odete; Pedro Barateiro; Salomé Lamas; Trevor Paglen; Vitória Cribb; Zach Blas.
Authors: Alberta Romano; Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro; Ana Salazar Herrera; Anne Faucheret; Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva; Eduarda Neves; David Revés; Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro; Isabel Nogueira, João Sousa Cardoso; Luísa Santos; Manuel Bogalheiro; Maria Kruglyak; Marta Espiridião; Paula Ferreira; Rômulo Moraes, Sara Castelo Branco; Sara Magno; Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues; Sofia Nunes; Tobi Maier.
Cover: Vitória Cribb, BUGs, 2023. Video Still. Courtesy of the artist.
Editor: Celina Brás
Designer: Lisa Moura
