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This course investigates body-related representations that go beyond the concerns of video and performance art practices of the ‘80’s, while acknowledging their legacy. A transhumanist lens is used to question our persistent fascination with the human body. Students explore issues at stake today that destabilize accepted boundaries between the natural and the artificial, and pose new questions about what it means to be human.
