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”.