Description
Emerging technologies such as AI and biotech have enabled society to move toward a synthetic reality in which human and non-human actors collaborate and the dichotomy between digital and physical disappears. What, then, is the meaning and the role of corporeal bodies in the future world? This panel discussion invites two artists who explore this question through speculative scenarios and will be moderated by media scholar Dr. Dan Hassler-Forest. Young Joo Lee will share her artworks, Lizardians (2021) and Nova Earth Odyssey (2024). Through science fiction narratives about a biotech company that applies genetic engineering as the future of aesthetics product, along with a music video that remixes religions, current social issues and K-pop aesthetics from a female-centered perspective, both works critically reflect on the patriarchal social infrastructure and technology within a capitalistic system. Jon Rafman’s web-based interactive game, S.S. Lacuna: Prologue (2024), is set inside a dystopian AI-generated universe in which the player becomes enmeshed in an illegal organ-harvesting operation and is recruited as a mercenary. The game poses a thought-provoking question about the implications when the resource contested by the global elite is not oil or technology but human flesh.| Period | 23 Nov 2024 |
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| Event title | Dystopian Sci-fi Futures and Digital Corporeality: Convolutions Public Program III. Dystopian Sci-fi Futures and Digital Corporeality |
| Event type | Exhibition |
| Location | Taipei, TaiwanShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |