cyborg

Trans*Plant: May the Chlorophyll be with/in you

Quimera Rosa (ES/AR/FR)

March 2016: Start of Trans*Plant project, which engages in human>plant hybridizations. December 2017: First chlorophyll IV injection @ Kapelica Gallery. March 2036: The annual Earth resources are exhausted > global Internet final shutdown. December 2037: A bio-hacker community connects a VPN to Mycorrhiza network. This mixed-media installation aims to present the work behind Trans*Plant, as well as produce a speculative fiction. A piece where leftovers from the past and the future get entangled.

Ether

Alain Barthélémy (FR)

Ether is a video presenting a technical device producing the 27 bones of the right hand. This 3D animation, which resembles a didactic document, seems to be promoting an innovative technology. There is certainly a rapprochement here with vanity. However, if the classic subject of art history is intended to present the irony of human existence trapped in a putrescible body, the vanity here would be that of a cyborg, a being who seems to be able to escape the ravages of time.