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Memories externalized by technology: how to create a bodily experience

This paper presents a theoretical-practical investigation on the importance and use of technology in the storage, evocation and transmission of memories, and how externalized memories can relate again with technology and the body, transforming itself into a form of existence. A historical study is carried out on memory and its relationship with technology, and a survey to understand memory today. In addition, digital aesthetics are explored, bringing examples of works that work with memory, body and technology. From the definition of these concepts, we seek to understand the interaction between memories external to the human body and the use of…

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Art of the Future

For hundreds of years, artists relied on paint and canvas, clay, or stone to express their ideas. Today, contemporary artists incorporate science, technology, engineering, and math into their work. Amy Karle uses her knowledge of human anatomy, technology and textiles to create her new media works, including Breathe… How is Karle’s process similar to Leonardo da Vinci’s? How is it different?

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AMY KARLE—Beyond Understanding

Overview of the lecture by Amy Karle during Beijing Media Arts Biennale at the Central Academy of Fine Arts titled “Data Dreams, Mechanical Animals & Biotranscendence: Amy Karle in Conversation with the Future”. Karle covered corporeal constraints and the human condition, time, the self and what does this really mean, create yourself, create your future, Bionics, Implants, Interfaces, bioAI, cyborgs, who we are becoming, transhumanism, post-life, identity, mortality, morality. At one point the artist paused and commented “The implications that our exponential technologies will have on humanity and our future is beyond our understanding”.

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ART+TECHNOLOGY episode 7 “Can 3D Art Become Human” (video)

“In the seventh episode of our captivating series, ART + TECHNOLOGY, we explore the world of bioart with Amy Karle. This innovative American artist uses 3D art to discover what it means to be human, expressing internal experiences in visual forms. Questioning whether or not 3D art can become human, Amy puts forward a new renaissance in which humans can become whatever they wish to be, as technology empowers expression through new tools, and the requirements of art serve to push the technology. Join us as Amy creates 3D representations of our internal selves, so that we may study the…

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L.A.S.T. Exhibition Book

This catalog accompanies the 2018 Last exhibition at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (including Amy Karle’s Artwork). The exhibition features work that explores the complex challenges represented by the intersection of science, technology, and society. “Almost anything that we create can become monstrous. One hopes for the best, but never knows just how it might play out. The story of humankind is partially a history of the twists and turns posited by technological innovation. The complex relationship between intention and context sometimes converge in mysterious and unpredictable ways resulting in new creative strategies, machines, social architectures, designs and creative expression." –…

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What is Life in the Bio-Tech Era? Creating a More Resilient Future

The American Arts Incubator – Poland “Layers of Life” workshop questioned “What is Life in the Bio-Tech Era?” through the lens of empowerment – exploring this pivotal point we are at in evolution across many strata, including personal, social, emotional and environmental impact, questioning how we can empower ourselves and our world, creating concepts and projects that provoke new ideas to shape a more resilient future.

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Labocine Laboratory Rituals

Laboratory Rituals Issue features 30 films that present the laboratory as imaginative and creative arena, where the unexpected gleams in rigorously orchestrated processes, a site of ritual and invention. Watch at labocine.com Amy Karle's Biofeedback Artwork (Amy Karle)

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Why Bioartist Amy Karle Expresses the Inside of Humans Through Fashion

‘Karle: I have always thought about what humans and identity are, and how to express identity in a form that is visible to the eye and tangible to the touch. That's why my art is a very personal thing that exposes my inner self to others. ... "My greatest challenge is to explore the meaning of the body, to feel the interior of the body, and to express the body. Therefore, for me, fashion and bioart are techno…’ (translated)

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Wearable Tech with Amy Karle The boundary-pushing artist gives insights on her inspiration, vision and ability to thoughtfully play with science, technology and fashion

Amy Karles’ latest collection showcases her fascination with a human body. Called Internal Collection, it is based on anatomy and – according to the description – “each garment is inspired by a different system of the human body: lungs, ligaments, and nervous system”.

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Profile: Amy Karle – “It’s Really Important That We Choose and Focus on the Future We Want to Achieve”

"Human induced evolution can occur much quicker than natural evolution and we can’t undo things like genetic editing so this is where it takes the most conscious awareness… we can easily see the potential doomsday scenarios, but we can also see enlightened futures as well. I can see all these different kinds of futures that are available to us, and it’s really important that we choose and focus on the future that we want to achieve. We cannot always achieve that, but if we are working towards that, we can get a lot closer than if we are blindly going…

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YouFab Selected Works Exhibition – Imagination Manifests

Debuting in Hong Kong for the first time, Youth Square in collaboration with Loftwork, presents the YouFab selected works exhibition, Imagination Manifests. In this exhibition, we have selected a special collection of works from all the winners and finalists of the YouFab Global Creative Awards, since its inception in 2012. With over 1,000 submissions from more than 30 countries around the world, these exhibited works exemplify that our ability to empower our own future is limited not by access to knowledge or technology, but only by our imagination.

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Monsters, Machines, Music and More

"Art and science have become so separated, so divided. If you go back in time, to the Renaissance, to Ancient Greece, any center that had a boom of creativity had a boom of both art and science…" Bio-artist Amy Karle will present her "Feast of Eternity," a 3-D print of a human skull that utilizes crystallization mimicking cell growth, which will "represent the mystery, delicacy and preciousness of life.

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Voicing Herstory – The Future History of Women with Amy Karle

In Celebration of Women's History Month, The Futures Forum presents: The Future History of Women - Voicing Herstory -- A Special Podcast hosted by Dr. Claire A. Nelson, White House Champion of Change and Ideation Leader of The Futures Forum/Development Foresight Institute. She interviews Amy Karle, Bio Artist and designer whose work can be seen as artifacts of speculative futures where digital, biological and physical systems merge - with an exploration into the FUTURE HISTORY of Women because the United Nations Sustainable Development #5 speaks specifically to the development and inclusion of Women 2030 & beyond.

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Why are there so few Women in 3D printing, and can we change that?

… I’m either fighting an uphill battle or I’m doing it against all odds – maybe both” Amy Karle stated “We are at a very exciting time in history. 3D printing offers opportunities to create in new ways, for healing, enhancing and augmenting the body in ways we’ve never been able to before. I’m most excited about applying additive manufacturing with other technologies to medical uses… to heal and enhance our bodies, minds and beings. I get really excited about bioprinting because it holds the promise of being able to create organs and replacement parts out of a patient’s own…

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Brainsongs and the Enhanced Human

Amy Karle … integrates mind, body and technology to create art and explore what it means to be human. “My work serves a platform to explore who we want to become; how are we going to use our technology to become the type of individual and society that we want to be? Especially when we are looking at artificial intelligence or genetic editing, where this human induced evolution can happen much more rapidly than the natural would. This could be a very concerning scenario so its important that we stop and think these scenarios through and employ these tools and…

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The Language That Only Art Can Speak

The process of making art is like the process of exploring yourself. For me, it is one and the same. Making art is a process of exploring myself and the world around me, making sense of it in a way that is beyond the thinking mind… from a place of all of these stirred influences that made me into who I am… the stirred area of the collective unconscious too… when I’m creating my art, it’s not just for me, and it’s not just from me, it’s from a place that I can only articulate through creating art, and a…

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Humanity, Technology Join Hands in Life/Art/Science/Tech Festival at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The hauntingly beautiful object resembling a human skull was designed by bioartist Amy Karle with the idea of “healing and enhancing a future body.” ... “This exhibition explores mysterious and unpredictable artistic forms that serve to provoke how we think about the complex relationship between humans and their technology.” – Curator Joel Slayton. Karle’s work speculates a future where technology can heal and empower human beings. “The desire to enhance the body and find freedom by matching our physical and internal identity is an element of the human condition.” - Karle