Real Holographic Cyborgs
Sunday, August 16, 2009 by Anonymous
In Donna Haraway's 1991 essay "A Cyborg Manifesto", in part one "An Ironic Dream of a Common Language for Women in the Integrated Circuit", Donna Haraway defines cyborg as a kind of hybrid product of technology. Haraway argues against traditional notions of feminism and essentialism thus encouraging dualism and hybridity.
This Hybridity in cyborg theory does not conform merely to the master-slave relationship exemplified by G.W.F. Hegel in the"Master-Slave Dialect", but introduces a more complex two way relationship, in which the boundaries for Animal and Human, Organism and Machine, physical and the non-pysical all breaks down.
Recent tenable Holographic technologies brings us back to the discussion of digital versus analogue, and the induced confusion of the blurred boundaries, where seeing another Three-dimensional person in front of us would not traditionally be thought of as anything non-tactile or digital, but here it is a digitized construction. Haraway argues that, through the exploitation of nature to serve the needs of culture, we gain "pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction."
The launch of Cisco’s On-Stage TelePresence Experience received strong reactions from the live audience, and attracted 455,160 viewers on Youtube (as of 16/8/2009). This experience was made possible by the incorporation of Musion 3D Holographic Projection technology with Cisco's TelePresence.
I think of the person being holographed as not a kind of cyborg in the way one would crudely imagine it to be, such as from the villain-like interpretations of Star trek or Doctor who.
It can not be seen as the extreme "Avant-Garde" cyborgs either, due to the fact we are not actually repositioning our own physical bodies, therefore I would classify it under the domains of the mundane cyborg.
From a rather realist approach, Catherine Hayles writes that it is human nature to use technology, and that human and technology co-evolve. An example here is the evolution of communication technologies, from male to telegraph, to telephone, to face-to-face web conference, to telepresence (maybe). And we as users of the technology evolves with the technology.
This also shows the trend of the disappearing interface and the increased immersion fidelity. with possible future everyday Holograms that we Can Touch and Feel, such as the touchable holography technology created by a team of researchers from The University of Tokyo.
This Hybridity in cyborg theory does not conform merely to the master-slave relationship exemplified by G.W.F. Hegel in the"Master-Slave Dialect", but introduces a more complex two way relationship, in which the boundaries for Animal and Human, Organism and Machine, physical and the non-pysical all breaks down.
Recent tenable Holographic technologies brings us back to the discussion of digital versus analogue, and the induced confusion of the blurred boundaries, where seeing another Three-dimensional person in front of us would not traditionally be thought of as anything non-tactile or digital, but here it is a digitized construction. Haraway argues that, through the exploitation of nature to serve the needs of culture, we gain "pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction."
The launch of Cisco’s On-Stage TelePresence Experience received strong reactions from the live audience, and attracted 455,160 viewers on Youtube (as of 16/8/2009). This experience was made possible by the incorporation of Musion 3D Holographic Projection technology with Cisco's TelePresence.
I think of the person being holographed as not a kind of cyborg in the way one would crudely imagine it to be, such as from the villain-like interpretations of Star trek or Doctor who.It can not be seen as the extreme "Avant-Garde" cyborgs either, due to the fact we are not actually repositioning our own physical bodies, therefore I would classify it under the domains of the mundane cyborg.
From a rather realist approach, Catherine Hayles writes that it is human nature to use technology, and that human and technology co-evolve. An example here is the evolution of communication technologies, from male to telegraph, to telephone, to face-to-face web conference, to telepresence (maybe). And we as users of the technology evolves with the technology.
This also shows the trend of the disappearing interface and the increased immersion fidelity. with possible future everyday Holograms that we Can Touch and Feel, such as the touchable holography technology created by a team of researchers from The University of Tokyo.