Cyborg

Having had a few different thoughts running through my head about different things I could do to create something using the theme of 'Cyborg' I produced this initial experiment. I didn't really know about the specific direction I wanted to go in nor did I have any expectations for the experiment I was producing, I simply wanted to see what I could come up with using the ideas in my head. I wanted to use a humans face as a starting point, then merging part of a robots face over it, creating a cyborg. Below is the outcome of my first experiment:

 Below are the images that I have merged together to create the above experiment.

http://epicscenery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Cyborg.jpg

http://www.viewfromablue.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Roberto-Mancini-14.jpg

http://www.slimeland.com/images/pictures/Cubes.jpg

For my first attempt, and having never done anything along these lines before I am quite pleased with the outcome of this experiment.

Before I started any of the research that I wanted to do, I saw this video had been posted on our photography facebook page and thought it could be quite interesting..

After I watched this video I realised a little more how amazing technology is, and the amazing things that technology does for us as humans in the present day. Technology has advanced so much that it now allows us to have electronic body parts which helps people everyday. Technology has made people cyborg's, making them part human part electronic - something that would probably never of been seen possible a few hundred years ago.

Ideas...

During the presentation we had yesterday for the introduction to this brief I wrote down some notes, bullet pointing some of the areas that were discussed during this time.


Cyborg:

• Human bodies
• Representation of the body
• Technology

Items that are extensions of us:

• Cars
• Mobiles
• Computers/laptops
• Ipods
• Cameras/photographs

A few ideas:

• Power and discipline
• Ethics
• Morals
• Photo montage
• Our relationship to things
• Technological development
• Improving what we can do as humans

Below are the names of some people that I am going to research as a starting point, so I can gain different ideas allowing me to come up with some ideas and direction:

•  Donna Harraway
• Wafaa Bilal
• Fritz Kahn
• Raoul Hausmann
• Hannah Hoch
• Martha Rosler
• Peter Kennard
• Stelarc

A few articles/websites I am going to look at are:

• The Guardian's website
• A Publications about body and society
• Silvian Thompkins - article about our bodies responses

Films I am going to watch as a starting point:

• Metropolis (1927)
• Terminator 2

I also intend to read the book 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Khan.

Photo Skills B - Brief

This assignment is on the theme of 'Cyborg' the merging of the body and technology. Using different layers of both human and thchnological images I need to produce a final image with the theme of cyborg.

However before I get to that stage I intend to do a lot of research to help me get to the point where I can produce something that is successful using the cyborg theme.

At this point I have no ideas about the direction in which I want to go in, Cyborg has never been an area that has interested me before meaning I don't really know much or anything about it, therefore I need to start by doing some research to give me a good starting point.