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A Story of Life and Death | Pat Cadigan | Virtual Futures Salon

Pat Cadigan at Virtual Futures Salon on the Semi-Artificail Imagination, 24 October 2012. Does life imitate art or does art imitate life? For philosophers and artists there have always been two types of imagery: 1) the faithful reproduction and 2) the image that is distorted intentionally. Increasingly interactions with synthetic and technologically driven spaces could be said to blur our perception of what is authentic. Designers and artists have often attempted to create faithful simulacrum that mimic the natural environment (in a process of bio-mimicry). But in the 21st Century, where we are increasingly impressed by our own technological prowess, we now have the tools to adapt and reform our environment - no longer biased by the the biological but servant to the synthetic. This Salon aimed to question the limits of representation and imagery exploring different ways in which technology is fundamentally changing what it means to be human. == Follow the Debate on Twitter == #VFSalon   / virtualfutures   == More Information == http://VirtualFutures.co.uk