Category: Bionic body
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Réflexion autour du corps hybride _ Oscar Pistorius
OSCAR PISTORIUS, PARADIGME DU CORPS HYBRIDE L’homme réparé peut-il être égal au corps de l’homme normal ? Cette interrogation médico-éthique n’est pas sans rappeler les controverses des jeux Olympiques autour de l’athlète paralympique Oscar Pistorius _ coureur double amputé des jambes courant sur des prothèses en carbone surnommé « Blade runner » ou « l’homme…
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Bionic man (London Museum, 01/2013)
BIONIC MAN @ LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM. Created for a Channel 4 documentary (01/2013) to prove just how closely technology can emulate the human body, Rex – short for “robotic exoskeleton” – has been put together by the Shadow robotics company using artificial limbs and organs borrowed from the laboratories of leading scientists from as far…
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The SF Soccer team (2008)
The matter in this painting was to express with a given group of individuals, eleven players on the field, lost limbs and reconstructed ones, following the range of possibilities plastic surgery practices offer: mechanical, myoelectrical, functional and/or aesthetical and bionic. The last “player” thanks to his numerous enhancements has already become a hybrid body,…