This week I was a bit more focused and posted a couple of tweets only, but focused on one subject, still the relation between bodies and information technology. I posted an interview on a type of biohackers known as grinders, and also posted the link with a reply on Katherine’s post. I was web surfing when I came across an idea that making a value judgement is one test for identifying artificial intelligence so I made a tweet about Siri.

I was surprised to find references to transhumanism quite prevalent. I posted my thoughts on wearable technology. I was unable to attend the second film festival but I posted my interpretation of the dark video, We only attack ourselves, as a response to Ben’s post.

The video Address is Approximate was a useful jumping point to think about virtuality and non-conscious cognition (a term I stumbled upon through a Hayles interview on Youtube.) It is quite easy to imbue the robot with character or personality but I realised that the film festival heading, machine sentience, suggests that this is not necessarily the case. It is possible to have non-personal learning agents.

Mainly this week, I have been thinking about my artefact assignment and will try to blog about some of the themes that I am considering at this stage: virtuality and the blurring of boundaries.  I’ve worked on the images and am trying to figure out a structure that ties them together.