Carson Cole

The idea of “cyborg art” was absolutely fascinating to me and brings up many questions about today’s society and the way it is headed. With our continued reliance on technology, it makes you wonder how long it will be until we start to foray into making ourselves cyborgs of sorts. I recently saw an article about Neil Harbisson, a man born with colorblindness that surgically implanted an electronic eye in his head that allows him to ‘hear’ colors. I thought this was incredible, and after watching shows like Black Mirror that speculate on this subject, I wouldn’t be surprised if we start using cybernetic implants for medical or just everyday purposes. I also wonder how people might react to this and the questions it raises about ethics and humanity. If you were able to safely get an implant in your eye that allowed you to use it as some kind augmented reality lens, would you? I was also surprised by the influence that performance art and happenings were able to have on future int

I think video games, especially ones today that are starting to utilize new technology such as virtual reality, greatly demonstrate the point Ron Burnett makes about viewers wanting to become a part of the images they see on screens. Unlike a television or movie screen, video games invite a user to become an active participant in the images they are seeing, allowing them to make choices about what happens in their personal experience with the medium. I think this kind of interactive media will become much more prevalent in the future, we have already seen for years television shows that invite the viewer to 'vote' for contestants or otherwise participate in the events you see on screen. I was also intrigued by Burnett's discussion of a photograph he took. When he first took the picture, he wasn't necessarily thinking about conveying a particular message with it. However, he later came back to it and realized he could relate it to something personal from his life. I th