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Are you still confident technology will be safe or
unforeseen results might threaten human evolution?
We
can’t guarantee a completely safe world. Curiosity and
experimentation will lead to unpredictable outcomes. The element of
surprise is what delights us as humans. Having said that, its an
indictment of our species that we seem to be aggressive and destructive
and new technologies amplify both our abilities to pursue meaningful
research and our potential to annihilate ourselves. Note that with
every new technology there is generated unexpected information and
images that undermine our present paradigms and destabilize our
experience and affirmation of the world.
Could new sensory levels trap mankind?
Being
able to experience a wider spectrum of the electromagnetic spectrum
will provide us with additional sensory information. I can’t
imagine this would be a negative thing. Rather than trap human-kind, it
will create a more meaningful window to the world, enhancing and
enriching our experience, awareness and operation of the body.
Your started to perform about forty years ago. Do you
think is there, in the actual artistic contest, a performer see fit to
become your artistic heir?
Oh, I’m sure
there are a number of artists who are experimenting and performing with
machines and interactive media. What’s important are not
artists who might perpetuate your performances, but rather artists that
have alternate ideas with radically different trajectories.
Are you going to arrange a new performance?
At
present I am trying to fully realize and my Extra Ear: Ear on Arm
project. There have been 2 surgical procedures to construct a left ear
on my left arm. It is still only a relief of an ear. The next steps are
to lift the helix of the ear to create a more 3D structure and also to
grow a soft ear lobe using my own extracted adult stem cells. An
implanted microphone connected to transmitter will enable wireless
connection to the internet in any wifi hotspot. It becomes a publicly
accessible organ that enables people in other places to listen to what
my ear is hearing, where they are and wherever I am. We have evolved
soft organs to better function in the world. Now we can engineer
additional organs to better function in the technological terrain that
we inhabit.
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