Work Type:screening
Date of work:1995
Measurements:duration : 75 min
Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:cyber, punk
Technique:curating
Collection:Video Postive Archive 1989 - 2000
Description:
Three programmes of video, film and computer animation from the 'new edge' of cyberpunk culture. Programme Two: Long Live the New Flesh.


A programme of digital image and cutting-edge techno-performance work which reveals the extent to which the body is being transformed, and may yet be eclipsed, by the influence of new technology. Computer animations by Beriou, Karl Sims et al toy with the fantasy of escaping our earthbound, corporeal nature for a free-floating virtual existence, while the documentary works on Survival Research Laboratories and Stelarc usher us into a cold post-human landscape dominated by the figure of the cyborg and a new generation of increasingly autonomous, potentially out-of-control machines.


Programme 75 mins approx:
TABLEAU D'AMOUR - Beriou/France 1994;
FLESH -Patrick Bergel/UK 1994;
LIQUID SELVES - Karl Sims/USA 1993;
SCANNING AT THE SPEED OF SIGHS - Michael Gruchy/Australia 1994;
A CALCULATED FORECAST OF ULTIMATE DOOM -Leslie Asako Glads/SurvivaI Research Laboratories/USA 1994.
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Source:"Video Positive 95", festival catalogue
Date of source:1995