Author: Mina Vijayshankar

  • Love, Death and Robots

    Bruce Lacey was a multidisciplinary artist and comedian, with a focus on performance art and mechanical constructs. Being an inventor and fascinator of all things automata, he consistently pushed boundaries with often robotic pieces taking a satirical look at human issues. He was approached by curator Jaisa Reichardt to exhibit a piece for Cybernetic Serendipity.…

  • Am I a CYBORG and is that a good thing?

    Of course I had heard of cyborgs, I pictured them as gunmetal grey robots that existed in Evangelion, or if I really thought about it, misunderstood organisms like that of Her, or Detroit: Become Human. To be honest, it never occured to me it is as simple as cybernetic organisms. Pieces of machinery- with electrics…

  • net art: rafael lozano-hemmer

    Net art (also know as Internet art), describes of movement from the 1990s to the early 2000s, that used the internest as the primary medium. Starting as a paroday of the avante garde, Bet art saw the internest molded into experiences that hadn’t been had before. As much as it was a critue of the…

  • networks i exist within

    Similar to an omnipotent god, networks seem to tug at the strings that puppet who we are and yet to become. Despite the connotations to technology, networks cover a huge ground, grouping us all in some way or another through connections. Everything we know of relies on this process of networks, helping everything along to…