El Bedoui Imen
(Dr. in sciences and arts techniques, University of Kairouan)
Abstract:
We will explore the connection between the implications of the postdigital in the bio art practices. When technology with its inventions takes a part in the artistic practice, we witness a new age of art creation. By using living material to create a unique living or semi-living artwork, bio artists explore the power of post-digital as a way to express the vital effect. The limit between real and virtual, between biological and virtual seems to be blurred. The openness and the limitless power of digital and post-digital as a possibility for a new creative visions impact the living and its manifestations in artworks. Roy Ascott consider distinction between digital and ‘’post-digital’’ is part of the economy of reality. In his book The Future of Art In Postdigital Age, Mell Alexemberg addresses the “humanization of digital technologies’’. Rethinking art, through the post-digital is also re-considering human creative mind with a new dimensions that goes beyond it limits. How could we consider the potential possibility that offers post-digital for the process of artwork becoming? In which way we could explore that deep and complex connection between the biological and the post-digital for the feature of bio art visions. Through this paper we will try to apprehend how human imagination can reach new territories by exploring the powerful use of technology and the understanding of its dimensions. By melting living material into digital and post-digital field, bio artists play with life to create a posthuman figure expression.
El Bedoui Imen is a doctor in sciences and arts techniques, specialty art theory in the University of Tunis and assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts Kasserine at University of Kairouan. Her research focus on the Bio art practice and its issues on ethics and Aesthetics, working on the question of limit.