New Media artist Eduardo Kac states, “The closer technology gets to the body the more it tends to permeate it”. (http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html). In this light, it appears that we have entered into a domain that has become an integrated and coexistent part of human life. Casting aside the categorisations of new media, it is clear that it is fundamentally dominating ever increasing aspects of human life ranging from medical technology to artwork. It appears that we are partaking in a Baudrillardian ecstasy of communication in which spatial distances and time does not exist. However, is society developing too rapidly, and are we really competent to control the full capacity of new media? “Henceforth it is no longer the human that conceives the world; it is the un-human that conceives us”. (Baudrillard, 2005).
With the inspirational creations of the artist’s imagination, current conceptualizations of space, distance, and time is becoming outmoded. We move into an age where new media, digital communication, light-speed, laser technology, and cybernetics are rapidly becoming a part of social organization and human existence.
Run for the hills!
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