Twists of the Smart Body. Biohacking as existential practice
Facts
- Contact person:
- Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen
- Financer:
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- WASP-HS
- Responsible at MaU:
- Charlotte Asbjørn Sörensen
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- External Supervisors:
- Amanda Lagerkvist
- Matilda Tudor
- Time frame:
- 01 September 2020 - 31 December 2026
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Project description
The project explores the ethical stakes and prospects of the living body under pervasive datafication and automation. Through a refunctioned ethnography of arts‑based biohacking, it activates the frictions and openings between Existential Media Studies and feminist new materialism to investigate currents, consequences, and interventions against techno‑logics that reduce embodiment as an ethical quest.
By empirically tracing arts‑based biohacking as an existential practice that both reflects and thwarts ruling techno‑logics, it attends to possibilities for tending the body, in all its vulnerability and potentiality, as a relational subject. Through such twists, the biohacked body becomes a prism for imagining more responsible, co‑existential futures with AI.