Mahindra Humanities Center’s Transmedia Arts Seminar, co-sponsored with metaLAB, at Harvard University

Thursday, April 15, 5pm EST

Animals in the Machine: Robotic Animal Agents
Jenn Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway, University of London

Building on the work around cyborgs and the non-human “others,” this talk illustrates the development of several types of robotic animals and insects, from animal drones and animal “spys,” to artistic robotic/cyborgean animal installations. My aim is to begin to discern in which cases a possible animal “agency” might provoke a rethinking of the human-technological-animal relationship. Looking specifically at work such as Korean/US artist Doo Sung Yoo’s animal-machine hybrids, biomimetic “mixed societies” of robotic and live cockroaches, and animal drones and automata, this talk examines questions of relationality, and possibilities for how mechanized animals, controlled by humans and, at times, at their least “animal,” might produce a disturbance that provokes possibility as a dissenting agent.

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Jessica Ullrich, Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art, Life After Literature: Perspectives on Biopoetics in Literature and Theory, Edited by Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó, Tamás Lénárt, Attila Simon, Roland Végs;, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, p. 186 – 188.
ISBN: 978-3-030-33737-7, eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33738-4
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33738-4

https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030337377

Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Becoming-Leech: Animal–human–technological hybrid exchanges, Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, Volume 25, Issue 4, 2020, The Centre for Performance Research Ltd, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2020.1842027

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2020.1842027

https://www.performance-research.org/

Doo-Sung Yoo, Artist Statement: Aqua001.c02: Robotic Pig Heart–Jellyfish
2009, Tierstudien 18/2020: Tiere und / als Medien, Edited by Jessica Ullrich and Stefan Rieger, Neofelis Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 2020
ISSN: 2193-8504
ISBN: 978-3-95808-315-8
ISBN (PDF): 978-3-95808-366-0

Art&Criticism, vol. 57 n.48 Winter 2017

Review by Lee, Sun Young:
An art critic and awardee of Incentive Prize for Young Critics 2014, International Association of Art Critics (Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, AICA)

ArtWide_March Issue, Volume 84, 2018
- The top national publication of art magazine in S.Korea

ANTENNAE: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture_#39_Spring 2017

The Interview article with Doo-Sung Yoo

Interviewer: Dr. Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, the author of Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance, Professor and Head of School of Perform & Digital Arts, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, Royal Holloway University of London

Full Pages PDF, Issue 39

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Korean Quarterly Art Magazine
Art & Criticism, Winter Issue, Volume 57, Number 48, 2017

Korean Monthly Art Magazine
Misulsegye, December, Volume 397, 2017

The top national publication of art magazine in S.Korea, ArtWide, March Issue, Volume 84, 2018

Polish Journal, Filo-Sofija

Kamil Kusy, “Cybernonstrum w art-edenie”, Filo-Sofija,Vol 17, No 39/2, 2017, p. 393-402
ISSN 1642-3267

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Parker-Starbuck, J. (2013). “Animal Ontologies and Media Representations: Robotics, Puppets, and the Real of War Horse”. Theatre Journal 65(3), p. 381.

DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0080
- The Johns Hopkins University Press

- The ATHE 2014 Outstanding Article award

Jennifer Willet,Introduction: Bio-Mobilities Issue, Wi: journal of mobile media 2015: Vol. 9 No. 1. Bio-Mobilities Issue, Canada 2015

Doo-Sung Yoo, Lifelike Artificial Hybrids: Aesthetic and Practical Approaches to Combinations of Natural and Unnatural Technology,Wi: journal of mobile media 2015: Vol. 9 No. 1. Bio-Mobilities Issue, Canada 2015


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“V. Body as Technology: Techno-body Modification”, Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age part 2 Theory, Ed. Dmitry Bulatov, the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia, 2013, p.232 –p.233.

Chris Hables Gray, “The Uncanny Evolution of Homo Cyborg”, Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age part 2 Theory, Ed. Dmitry Bulatov, the Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia, 2013, p.247.

Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia
ISBN: 978-5-94620-073-8

Ricardo Iglesias Garci, “Robofilia, mangas y tecnoarte japonés”, Artmedia 15 años / Autores varios; compilado por Alejandra Marinaro y, Facundo Colantonio. - 1a ed. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires: Universidad Maimónides, Argentina, 2015. P.100

ISBN 978-987-1699-22-3

Dmitry Bulatov, "A Post-Biological Artwork", Intertekst, July, 2011, published by Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland

“Round Table: Ethics and Contemporary Art”, Art Theory and Artistic Imagination in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Boris Bozhkov, International Journalof Cultural Research, 2010, p.11.

ISSN 2079-1100

The DI Magazine, N2. 2010, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia, p.92

Full Pages PDF of the DI magazine 2010, 02