Berrocal and the transhumanist aesthetic
A transhumanist overview of Berrocal's work
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Umatica.2019.v1i2.7880Keywords:
transhumanism, Art, Robotics, Berrocal, Sculpture, AestheticsAbstract
Miguel Berrocal's work is always referred to and remembered as an example of "mathematical art", an adjective that makes sense because it is one of the artists who combines engineering and art in his sculptural work. For others, his works are reminiscent of the work of a jeweller or a watchmaker, a craftsman who has gone beyond the line that was drawn in the 18th century and has become an artist. However, there are some features in his methods and his subject matter that are being ignored, that are usually unnoticed, and these allow us to frame Berrocal's work in another horizon: transhumanism. In this article we examine the philosophical and aesthetic approaches of "transhumanist art" and Berrocal's work, in order to find a correlation that will allow us to propose a re-reading of his work and to update his position in the contemporary arts and aesthetics
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