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Meiro Koizumi, Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, 2023

Meiro Koizumi

Prometheus the Fire-Bringer, 2023
outdoor VR installation
30 min
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
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  • Prometheus the Fire-Bringer
The story, which is told in a poetic tone, is a mythical story of humans to become entirely different beings through a small bio-technological operation. To tell this mythical story...
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The story, which is told in a poetic tone, is a mythical story of humans to become entirely different beings through a small bio-technological operation. To tell this mythical story in the an effective way, VR technology. is used It allows to blur the outlines of the body, and tricks the brain into feeling that one is living among a collective body consisting of many other bodies. This is a challenge to intervene with the conventional understanding of human instinct and the image of our body. Our instinct is a flexible thing and it can be altered easily according to the biological, the environmental, the social, and the technological conditions. It is an on-going process that technologies are triggering big changes in our instinct, and the question is how we want our instinct to be changed through technology. The image of the fire brought by Prometheus represents the strength of human civilization and progress through technology. Today, the challenge of art is to create another kind of image of the fire and technology. This is an attempt to plant a small imaginative seeds in our unconscious, to transform the aggressive nature of the human instinct into a gentler one, and ultimately be better post-humans.
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