Contemporary Forms of Body's Technical Mediations in Context of Visual Culture

Student: Vasilenko Nikita

Supervisor: Nina Sosna

Educational Programme: Visual Culture (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This work considers contemporary foms of technical mediation of embodiment within transdisciplinary contest of recent cultural theories. The role of technical extension of bodily experience, and the notion of technical epiphylogenetic coevolution of human and technical objects, derivatory status of the consciousness from technically amplificated microoperations are considered. The work contains the case study in speculative exposition of technobiological convergence.

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