The considerable progress in artificial intelligence, data processing and robotics brings up to date old questions, philosophical as well as scientific: what is the singularity of the living? What distinguishes the human from the machine? These questions are taken up here by animated image artists, to offer their vision of a world where bodies are in the process of hybridization.
9 shorts (animations, experiments, videoarts) selected by Serge Dentin in a broad context addresing the subject of transhumnism, where the lines between human and non-human, virtual and real world are blurred.
What determines our humanity?
Will we wake up one day in science fiction like world, where the clean line between man and machine can’t be drawn?
Serge Dentin (born 1963)
After scientific and musical studies in Paris then Marseille (PhD in theoretical physics, Aix-Marseille University), also holds a Master 2 in philosophy-epistemology, he turned later to the cinema, both as a programmer and a filmmaker. He is currently director of the Polly Maggoo association (Marseille), artistic director of the RISC festival (Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinemas /International Science & Cinemas meetings), which film program covers both physical and social sciences and humanities.
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