Human Enhancement Aesthetics
Natasha Vita-More
2009-08-03 00:00:00
URL

The importance of emerging technologies of enhancement for artmaking awaits a field to challenge the traditional role of aesthetic judgment. Bringing aesthetics into discussions where nano-bio-info-cogno converging technologies are evident gives an artistic voice to the science of human enhancement and urges an aesthetic role in human futures.

Framing human enhancement morphology into categories of emerging and exploratory helps to provide a glimpse of what artists’ media might be. Emerging media range from immersive virtual personas (avatar) to machine cyborg in adjusting physiological attributes. The exploratory media radically change the body’s form, alter its lifespan, and enhance cognitive processes (transhuman/posthuman). This emerging/exploratory scope of design engineering includes synthetic and natural environments and suggests bio-nano bodily design with enhanced info-cogno/neuro processing power.