UAVM VIRTUAL MUSEUM
PRESENTS
CYBER HUMAN FORMS
CURATED BY JOSÉ VIEIRA
OCTOBER 7 – DECEMBER 26 2010
CYBER HUMAN FORMS
Continual developments within the field of post-industrial or post-human technology such as
simulation technology, computer mediated communications technology, biomedical (genetic
engineering, scanning devices, cloning) and prosthetic (bioelectric implantation or extension)
technologies are making it all the more realizable for the human subject to modify its
corporeality.
(Ras Steyn in, Abstract Post-human Body and Identity Modification in the Art of Stelarc and Orlan,
Tshwane University of Technology, 2005)
When the web functions well, the internet environment appears as a presence-at-hand
(Heidegger‘s “objective” observance), but when the web dysfunctions or when computer slows
down, when viruses destroy important documents or when suddenly a file does not open, we
experience cyberish readiness-to-hand (Heidegger‘s personal involvement and Seinsfrage).
Cyber anxiety strikes us because the referential totality in which we‘re involved does not work.
Seinsfrage surfaces as soon as cyber tool dysfunctions. Suddenly we experience ourselves as
the shepherds of our being. This time we take care of our existence not in the woods nor on a
farm nor in a factory, but a computer desk. Needless to say, anxiety arises at a computer desk
when the significant computer and its cybernation do not function properly. And that indicates
that virtual cyber space is no longer virtual. Human existence at least partially has already been
transferred to the web. If so, there is nothing virtual about it.
(Tomas Kavaliauskas in Cyber-nating Humans, balphin, april 2010)
The body has been increased, invaded, and now becomes a host not only by technology but
also by remote agents. As the Internet provides multiple forms, interactive display, connect and
retrieve information and images, you can now allow unexpected ways of access, connect and
get the body itself. And instead of posing online as a way to satisfy desires outdated
metaphysical disembodiment, offers, on the contrary, powerful individual and collective
strategies for projecting body presence and the dissolution of the ego, but generates new
collective physical links and a scaling telematic subjectivity. What becomes important is not
merely the identity of the body, but its connectivity; not its mobility or location, but its interface ...
(Stelarc in Visions parasitic alternating experiences, intimate and involuntary, Ars Telematica (edited by
Claudia Giannetti), L'angel, Barcelona, 1998)
CYBER HUMAN FORMS
Norms o Participation
1. Cyber Human Forms pretends to be a Web Art Show, and is part of FONLAD
Festival. The project is opened to all artists, who work in net art or web art.
2. All projects will be subject to the appreciation of the curator’s museum having
as base the available space and quality of works.
3. The Project’s exhibition will take place at the Temporary Exhibition’s Room of
the Museum, between October 7 and December 26, 2010.
4. Each participant only be able to present 1 project in digital format, having
“Cyber Human Forms” as theme. All artists must fulfilling an entry form, with
name, nationality, email address, web site, short bio and work’s project.
5. From each selected project will be presented only the index of the page. It
will be presented in JPEG format (Print Screen). This will be the image
published in the page of the museum, with respective link. Each project will be
followed by a presentation text (10 lines).
6. The works will have to be sent up to September 30 2010, for the following
address: info.uavm@gmail.com. The works received after this date will be
excluded from the show. At the moment of reception of the works, an email it
will be sent to confirm the respective reception.
7. Finished the event, the museum’s direction reserves the right to keep the
images received to build a digital projects gallery collection. All the images will
have links to the sites of the participating artists.
8. The missive situations to these regulations will count on an applicability and
resolution of the commission’s museum.
9. For any doubt or clarification in relation to the organization of the exhibition
please contact the direction board of the museum or the curator’s exhibition:
Museum Director’s boar: info@uavm.net
Curator’s Museum (Jose Vieira): info.uavm@gmail.com
CYBER HUMAN FORMS
Entry Form
Fill and return by email: info.uavm@gmail.com
Identification of the author:
Name: __________________________________________
Artistic name: ____________________________________
Nationality: ___________________ Date of Byrth: _____/___/___
Email: _______________________
Web site: _______________________________________________________
Identification of the project:
Title
url’s project
Technical details
Year
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT:
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SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
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