LASER talk presented as part of the Medicine and Media Arts series, featuring Stelarc, Rebecca Messbarger, Piroska Kopar, and special guest Siddharth Ramakrishnan.
The discussion explored evolving ideas surrounding the “spectacular body” through the lenses of medicine, transhumanism, neuroscience, bioethics, and performance art. Topics included technological augmentation, genetic modification, disembodied cognition, and the cultural implications of altering the human body.
Hosted by Patricia Olynyk and Victoria Vesna.