http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/10/03/the-monster-is-within/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/10/03/the-monster-is-within/#comment-24 Ania Rolińska Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:12:49 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=1324#comment-24 Thanks for the links Sian - Piccinini's work is indeed intriguing and some of the sculptures evoke some strong emotions ranging from repulsion to curiosity, brought about by deformity, otherness, excess, physicality, blurring the boundaries between human/animal, normal/abnormal, natural/engineered, even at the level of materials used to produce the sculptures, synthetic, man made combined with human hair. Focus on family themes, nurture, love, compassion and often integrating human babies/kids (with their innocence and open futures and possibilities) into the sculpture group creates a fresher and more calming stance on the human/tech interaction than the pictures linked to in my post. Thanks for the links Sian – Piccinini’s work is indeed intriguing and some of the sculptures evoke some strong emotions ranging from repulsion to curiosity, brought about by deformity, otherness, excess, physicality, blurring the boundaries between human/animal, normal/abnormal, natural/engineered, even at the level of materials used to produce the sculptures, synthetic, man made combined with human hair. Focus on family themes, nurture, love, compassion and often integrating human babies/kids (with their innocence and open futures and possibilities) into the sculpture group creates a fresher and more calming stance on the human/tech interaction than the pictures linked to in my post.

]]> http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/2011/10/03/the-monster-is-within/#comment-23 Siân Bayne Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:51:58 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/annar/?p=1324#comment-23 Ania - I like the image you link to here - I wonder if you've seen Patricia Piccinnini's work and the way she plays with the idea of bio-technological intervention in the human body? More about her work here: http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/ and some of her most striking work here: http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/wearefamily/index.php?sec=yf Ania – I like the image you link to here – I wonder if you’ve seen Patricia Piccinnini’s work and the way she plays with the idea of bio-technological intervention in the human body? More about her work here:
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/
and some of her most striking work here:
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/wearefamily/index.php?sec=yf

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