Going beyond humanness – new paradigms in design interaction
Rogers, Kathleen (2012) Going beyond humanness – new paradigms in design interaction. In: Design in Society - Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine: Translating Cultures, 19 December 2012, Wellcome Trust, London. (Unpublished)
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The arts and humanities are facing up to a whole range of challenges not least of which is qualifying what we mean by the term "humanness" in advanced cross-disciplinary, scientific and technological research contexts. This keynote paper explored notions of "going beyond humanness" to address current boundary problems and challenges confronting artists and designers when working in contexts associated with the new wireless media landscape, the modification of biological matter through nanotechnology and within artificial intelligence and synthetic biology contexts. The talk included screens excerpts and conceptual frame-working of recent video artworks 'Black Lace' and 'Intra-actions and Reconfigurings' - produced on an EPRSC (PIA) funded residency at the School of Medicine, University of Southampton.
In addition to the keynote paper, a drawing workshop explored notions of direct sensory perception, embodiment and human enhancement. The workshop took the form of a collective rule based drawing exercise-exploring anomalies of conscious perception. The reflective observational drawing sessions formed the basis of a conversational seminar and a discussion panel. The outcomes are in the process of being post-produced as an archive intimately linked to the Wellcome Trust Collection.
'Design in Society - Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine: Translating Cultures' was held by the AHRC sponsored skills development project, 'Design as human interface in the digital age and for the creative economy' led by Professor Kerstin Mey of the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) and Dr Tom Simmons of Norwich University College of the Arts (NUCA), reflecting on creativity in art and science.
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