At this stage I still need to narrow down the research to more specific question however I would like to explore the topic of post-humanism and trans-humanism interleaping with Sound Arts. Firstly, I would like to focus on various definitions of what post-humanism and trans-humanism generally means, establish the difference between the terms and explore the critique of them.

Essay will follow with the case study of the cyborg artist Neil Harrbison. Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised British-Irish-American cyborg artist and activist for transpecies rights. He was been born with achromat vision and is the most known for permanently implementing antenna into his skull. The antenna allows him to hear hear colours even beyond classical human vision spectrum and translate them into hearable notes generated by sine waves.

Next part will explore the idea of humans merging and enhancing with technology in more non-invasive way from the point of view my own practice which I call Sonokinesis and artists which I have been taking great inspiration from like for example Onyx Ashanti and Imogen Heap.

Selected bibliography:

Robert Ranish and Dtefan Lorenz Sorgner – Beyond humanism: Trans- and posthumanism  

Donna Harraway – A Cybrog Manifesto 

Andrew Pilsch – Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia

Oliver Krüger – Virtual Immortality: God, Immortality and the Singularity in Post- and Transhumanism

N. Katherine Hailes – How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cubernetics, Literature and Informatics

Neil Harrbison – TED Talk