Interactive 3D Computer animation, Kirsten Geisler, 2000<\/p>\n
Nietzsche had already stated that “God is dead”, and for Baudrillard reality was dead as well. Today, mankind basks in the omnipotence of biological, technical, and scientific knowledge that makes it the absolute ruler or even creator. Thanks to plastic surgery, cosmetics, and all sorts of medical devices and tinctures, one was hitherto able to wrest from nature new creative liberties at least in terms of optical appearance. Yet what was fundamentally not intended by nature, can now be achieved artificially thanks to the technology of the bio-engineers. In her works “Who are you”, “Dream of Beauty” and “Touch me” Kirsten Geisler subjects the artificial beings from the “hybrid torture chamber” of such human arrogance to negotiation with the observer in order to point out the real dangers of the game with virtual artificiality.<\/p>\n
As man shared his living space with the fly all along, the fly also joined the “virtual Homo Sapiens” in his “virtual sphere” and shares the advantages of the virtual living space. The monumental insect – this digital artefact that cleans itself, licks its legs and takes off with a buzzing sound – acts like the animals watched in the wild, by reacting and varying its behaviour with a certain degree of freedom. The asexual reproduction of the fly results in identical clones without individual characteristics. It seems impossible to tell apart its behaviour from that of the projection.<\/p>\n
Should it become possible one day to implant life in general and that of the human race in particular into digital prototypes, in a way that they appear to us as indistinguishably conscious, maybe even soulful, then we would know the answer to the existential question: What is nature, what is man?<\/p>\n
Barbara K\u00f6nches, ZKM Karlsruhe (GER)
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