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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Joseph Ingoldsby <
landscapemosaics@verizon.net> wrote:
> Roger Malina and Annick Bureaud:
>
> May I please ask your readers to review current work on view at the MIT
> Museum- Robots and Beyond: Exploring Artificial Intelligence at MIT.
> http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/robots.html
> The collaborative research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab may be of
> interest and relevant to the current discussions on Ethnic Cyborgs.
>
> Joseph Ingoldsby
> Landscape Mosaics
>
>
> On 7/12/09 9:37 AM, "roger malina" <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > ETHNIC CYBORG= CYBORGs IN BURKAs=AVATARS AS BURKAS
> >
> > I want to venture with a little trepidation in territory that has
> difficult
> > Cultural and political connotations today, to argue that Cyborgs should
> be
> > able to wear Burkas in Public.
> >
> > I was talking to Annick Bureaud and she made the comment that its strange
> that
> > With the Burka, we mask everything except the eyes , but that on
> > television you often
> > See shots with peoples eyes blocked out to avoid being able to
> > recognize the person.
> >
> > This gets into the general area of how we use non verbal communication
> > in general
> > To assess the credibility and intent of people when they are in
> > dialogue with you. And
> > the importance of eyes. ( Semir Zeki at his Plaisir neuroaesthetics
> > conference in Berkeley
> > a couple of years ago, dealt with how neurobiology now informs how
> > facial recognition works
> > and interpretation mechanisms and the plasticily of those circuits in the
> > brain)
> >
> > Yasmin moderator Soussi Houssine is doing a PhD on the use of
> photojournalism
> > in
> > The arab press in north africa, and necessarily one gets into the
> > whole discussion of how the body ,
> > naked or not, is situated in different cultural and religious
> > contexts. And the large issue of How
> > clothing is also part of the non verbal communication interpretation.
> > My father grew up in an age where wearing a hat in public was
> > obligatory for certain
> > Social classes.
> >
> > In western culture the age of a body is very difficult territory.
> > Artist Orlan who has
> > Used her body as her territory for art making, forces us to address
> > such issues. (no
> > Comment re Michael Jackson)
> >
> > One of the liberating effects of on line culture has been to create
> spaces
> > that
> > Break many of the cultural norms of interpersonal dialogue. In second
> life
> > Everyone is wearing a burka. But the second life user has total
> > liberty to use/not
> > Use anonymity and to design their appearance. This is not the case in
> > patriarchal
> > Societies that enforce secondary roles for women ( with our without
> > burkas) and don¹t
> > Let you design your own or decide when to wear it.
> >
> > Maybe there are several basic rights that a Cyborg should have:
> >
> > a) A right to privacy. Knowing however that the right to privacy has
> > evolved radically
> > over the last few thousand years. In village life there is little
> personal
> > Privacy but at least you know who is watching you and you can watch them
> > back.
> >
> > b) A right to dignity and equality with non cyborgs, something even we
> humans
> > have failed to minimum dignity a social reality. ( and by creating a
> > class of Œwe
> > Humans versus ³you cyborgs: I have fallen into the trap that the body
> > determines
> > Your identity ( need to unpack Varela¹s nice statement that ³all
> knowledge is
> > Conditioned by the structure of the knower; cyborgs can know things
> > we cant know and
> > vice versa )
> >
> > Two rights are perhaps becoming particularly important:
> >
> > c) A right to anonymity. The surveillance society is rapidly
> > eliminating our ability to mask
> > our identity ( except during Carnaval). There will eventually be more
> > web cams than people soon.
> > There are hacker communities now becoming expert at how you can
> > remain anonymous
> > ( many countries try to block aliases in computer
> > Accounts= facebook too. Last night Lambert and Carlos Santiago took me
> > to the Plaza Garibaldi
> > in Mexico City where the mariachi players entertain revelers behaving
> > with implicit public anonymity.
> >
> > d) A right to all the data available about themselves. We live in the
> > terabyte era with
> > massive data being accumulated about each one of us ( yes google) and
> > this is probably irreversible.
> > You should have a right to all the data being taken about yourself.
> >
> > Artists projects that explore issues of privacy, human dignity,
> > anonymity and data ownership I
> > think are relevant to this Ethnic Cyborg discussion. We have been having
> > Trouble this month opening up this discussion, maybe some of the
> > artists on the list
> > Doing work in these areas would like to tell us about their work. Any
> > artists working on "eyes" ?
> >
> > Roger
> >
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