cyborgs

“Living Jewels, Creepy Crawlers, and Robobugs: Insects in the Wunderkammer, Surrealism and Contemporary Art” by Marion ENdt-Jones uses insects as the lead in her case study about the intersection between art, tehcnology, and nature

cyborg- a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts

• marion sees cyborg as hybridity (human vs nonhuman, aurganic vs inorganic)

Wunderkammern- cabinets of curiosities, arose mid 1700s europe

why is the sybmol of the insect so powerfu

• aesthetic of the insect

• transgressive qualities

• place is between art and nature

• instinct and reason

• living organism and automaton/machine

hubert duprat

• uses many differnet materials (concrete, metals, pvc pipe, crystal

• he gave caddis larvae no other materials but gold to make their crysalis out of so now they are gold bugs)