WEEK 4 DESMA 9

Critical thinking regarding the relationship between identity, the body, and technology in contemporary art was stimulated by the course materials. The most influential pieces were Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and Heather Dewey-Hagborg's bio-art projects. The idea that our genetic identity can be stolen without our consent and used to make assumptions about who we are is explored in Dewey-Hagborg's Stranger Visions. Her more recent pieces, such as Probably Chelsea, challenge the ways in which biological data is woven into a larger web of systematic bias, commodification, and surveillance. In Crash (1996), the sexual fascination of characters with car crashes creates a narrative in which trauma, machinery, and identity become indistinguishable, illustrating how technology rewires our desires and understanding of the body. With a wealth of biological and symbolic imagery, Barney's Cremaster Cycle challenged the reader to consider transformation on a psychological and mythological level in addition to physical transformation. These resources illustrated how modern artists dissect what it means to be human using scientific ideas and new technologies, showing that art actively questions, shapes, and occasionally opposes scientific advancement rather than merely responding to it. Collectively, these resources illustrated how modern artists dissect what it means to be human by utilizing scientific ideas and cutting-edge technologies. They made it clearer to me that art actively questions, shapes, and occasionally opposes scientific advancement rather than merely responding to it. This week forced me to reevaluate my identity and to think about the invisible systems, biological, technological, and cultural, that influence our identities. 



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The Cremaster Cycle

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