A silicone jellyfish with a rat’s heart, a drone that smells using the antenna of a moth, wearables made from cultured human skin, an AI-populated digital snack bar in the metaverse. These projects and many more offer a mind-bending, head-turning vision of the future that Madeline Schwartzman demonstrates is just around the corner.
Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology, and art, this broad-ranging survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it means to be alive has dramatically changed. Where do we draw the new lines? Are there any boundaries we should not cross? And what if?…? By examining these new “beings,” Alive maps out a vision of new partnerships, uncanny hybrids, and collaborative intelligences, as science fiction rapidly becomes science fact.
Contributors
Madeline Schwartzman
Author
Madeline Schwartzman is an artist, writer, filmmaker, architect, and educator who explores human narratives and the human sensorium through all of the above mediums. She is also the author of See Yourself Sensing and See Yourself X.
Edward Ashton
Foreword By
