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"The basic device of aesthetic composition (metaphor, to put it in one word), marginalized in literate education, becomes central to electrate learning" (Ulmer, Internet Invention, p69). |
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H.R. Giger |
Giger studied architecture and industrial design. He uses his knowledge of anatomy and architecture to reconstruct organic representations by expanding the relationship between virtuality and reality. This projection of a future or past is mired in the macabre. His subjects seem to be preserved while in motion, almost to suggest the manipulation of corpses. Various images connect my visual memory to the works of director Chris Cunningham and musician Marilyn Manson.
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Giger's representations fuse artificial with organic, metal with flesh, pain with ecstasy and eroticism. These grotesque images simulate a world in which living tissue and metal and circuitry exist in a strange symbiosis. The textures are lively, human anatomy perhaps providing the template from which to design each artificial apparatus. Does this image better articulate the connection between our organic selves and our technological extensions? Have we so heavily depended on our technological devices to both define us and prompt each step of social evolution?
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