"My Love, the Robot": digital & interactive prints

"My Love, the Robot"
Digital & interactive prints
2013

Cyborg #12 - digital print mounted on Dibond - 50x60cm - 2013

Blending into society, robots are now becoming more and more life-like. And they are claiming to be acting as moral agents.

With nanotechnologies scientific discoveries, the boundaries between the living and the artificial tend to disappear, introducing the artificial into the natural and vice-versa. Donna Haraway’s model of the cyborg is thus imposing itself gradually, with the postmodern notion of one same nature-culture, getting rid of the body’s dualities and oppositions between nature and culture, object and subject…

Flesh and mechanics are intertwined.

Going a step further into transformations, France Cadet performs into the shape of a gynoid through this series of digital and interactive photographs.

Following the aesthetic standards of science fiction, those hybrids reflect the contemporary imagination of cyborgs. Half robot and half woman, into the shape of a female android, the artist explores and questions the functioning of the human body, its feelings, emotions and communication between man and machine.

Both natural and artificial, erotic and robotic, inner and outer, real and unreal...

Those hybrid bio-mechanical bodies naturally artificial by definition, call us to interact with them through our senses ( touching, caressing..)
Come closer, touch gently and you will trigger artificial muscle of the butterfly flapping its wings, you will hear the pace of a heart beat, or feel a lightening electronic shivering...

The whole series "My love, the Robot" includes 17 cyborgs, 2 of which are interactive.