O możliwości kina biologicznego i post-ludzkiego. Między etologią, „assistive technologies” i cybersztuką
On The Possibility of Biological and Post-Human Cinema. Between Ethology, Assistive Technologies and Cyberarts

Author(s): Anna Maj
Subject(s): Media studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: post-human cinema;assistive technologies; ethology; primatology
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the new form of imagery and narration from the border of new media art and science (“assistive technologies”, ethology, primatology). It describes relatively new cultural practices of using tablets in communication with people with the spectrum of autism and in interspecies communication with primates. The consequences in the area of communication stemming from the ease of usage of such interfaces, communication competences formed in these processes and semiotic status of such images are presented in detail. These examples will be compared here with certain creative projects from the area of cyberarts (which are also scientific in character), leading to the conclusion that the art, especially images, but also the cinema, may be created not only by humans and for humans, but also by other living organisms and for other living organisms, not necessarily conscious of the ongoing process. The projects presented here in details are: “Cinema for Primates”, “The Cell Camera”, “I’m Humanity”, and “Metabol A.I.”. The paradoxical status of the biological cinema, the post-human cinema or “the not-for-humans cinema” is analysed in relation to the broader anthropological and communication insight. We observe the consequences of such artistic and scientific activities for the understanding of the new imagery, the ubiquity of new visual technologies (postmedia) and the human condition.

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