Cyborg Manifesto

I must say that this was rather intense. I really couldn’t understand what Donna Haraway was talking about even after reading again. I kept on getting confused. However, I think I got a little understanding about the information she was trying to convey. At the center of her ironic article, Donna Haraway introduces and defines the CYBORG which is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. She narrates that Cyborg’s are fact of the present, rather than the future, by indicating the three current "border crossings": the blurring of animal and human; human and machine; and the physical and non-physical.

Further in the article, Haraway deals specifically with the issue of feminist and strongly criticizes the radical feminism of Catherine MacKinnon, arguing that the search for the "essential woman" is not only elusive, it is dangerous. Her concept of the cyborg is a matter of fiction and lived experience that changes what counts as women's experience in the late twentieth century.

I think that the whole article is based on feminism and why we are cyborgs in Donna’s eyes.

My World of Veggies

This is a washing machine made out cauliflower. In the process of making this piece, a few decisions were made. First I had to look for a vegetable that had more or less the same shape. The Cauliflower was the best choice. It did not only distort the image but gave it a new definition. I like the effect that the cauliflower creates on the washing machine, it doesn’t only create the outer shape but also makes it seem like the detergent is bubbling out of the machine.










A lamp made out of lettuce, an onion a cucumber and a computer speaker made out of a cabbage, made the best studying desk ever. It is my small world of veggies. I love the fact that the onion blends in with the shape of a light bulb. The speakers itself is my friend’s personal favorite. She likes the effect that the different steams on the cabbage set an unusual mood. It almost seems like loud music is coming out of the speakers in the form of vibration.


This is a computer mouse made out of an Avocado. I chose the Avocado because the skin looked more like a mouse or rats skin. Inventing the Avocado Click I settled for what was representing and defining the machine rather than just taking any random vegetable and making it form the machine. I didn’t really want to move away from the subject or meaning.

Fabricating all three images I decided to leave all images in their regular positions because I wanted to construct a normal atmosphere of an everyday life.

Made History - Sovient WWII Potographs

Looking at the different photographs, I received a particular feeling that reminded me of the wars that happened in Africa, mostly Sierra Leone. The two images that caught my eye are the “Dimitrii BalTermants (1912-1990) GRIF Kerch, Crimea” and “Sergic Strunnikov (1907-1944) ZOYA KOSMODEMYANSKAYA, Partisan Heroine 1941”.

The first picture “Sergic Strunnikov (1907-1944) ZOYA KOSMODEMYANSKAYA, Partisan Heroine 1941” was an image of a dead lady. Her clothes were turned indicating that she must have been tortured well before her death which was a caused of being hanged. Looking closely to the image, even though its not in color, the woman’s face doesn’t give of any form of struggle or pain. It almost seemed like her death was something that she expected. I know if I was hanged both my eyes and mouth would have been wide open. The fact that someone could take a picture of her in that form indicates that she might have been left there to rot, as an example of to others. It was only minutes after when I read the history behind the photos that I realized that my judgments were rights. The lady in the photo was a leader called Zoya who stood up for her rights and was captured by Nazi soldiers who tortured and eventually killed her.

The second picture “Dimitrii BalTermants (1912-1990) GRIF Kerch, Crimea” was an image of grieving people. Whilst looking at the image my eyes were drawn to the grieving woman. I couldn’t help but to think of the wars that had been happening around. The feeling I got from the picture is that it must have been after a war in what was once a war field, and everyone is roaming around looking for most probably relatives or tying to identify the bodies. The fact that the bodies were not buried but left there to rot created a different emotion. I also realized that the dead bodies wee all male, which indicated that they were either soldiers or males that have been taken away from their families to help in the fights. Another thing that caught my eye was the solider that stood almost away from the bodies and doesn’t seem to give off any form of emotion.

The exhibition I thought was rather powerful in the sense that it created a type of atmosphere that one could relate to both with time and place.

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I lost my first perfect response To Turing.. So sad

However the understanding that I got from the article is that A.M. Turing has a belief that one day machines or computers would have the ability to think.
In the article, Alan Turing stands by his belief as he argues his word against the different objections. It could be argued that machines cannot have souls for thinking is a function of man's immortal soul. God has given an immortal soul to every man and woman, but not to any other animal or to machines. Hence no animal or machine can think. Turing disagrees with this statement as he points out that we cannot know if computers could have consciousness, because we cannot really know if other people have consciousness unless we are those people themselves.

One argument that I felt was well expressed by Professor Jefferson is "Not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain-that is, not only write it but know that it had written it”. I strongly agree with what the professor states, I mean I do admit to the fact that computers can think but up to an extent, because we programmed them that way, it was the human that made the computer after all.

If we do agree with Turing, I guess we would try to build a computer like a human infant, and then program it to learn.

Artist Lecture

To be honest I had no idea what so ever what to expect from the visiting artist, in fact, I don’t think anyone did. Siobhann Rigg’s work is one that I may never forget; the one artwork that kept reappearing in my head was the slideshow of black and white photographs. I like the fact that she made them in the form of an eye movie manipulating time and vision at the same time indicating movement. Some of her artwork is extraordinary, it made me curious and wanting to know more, yet still, it is because of this curiosity that makes her work unique and perfect. One of many artworks showed was the Microarmy a tool off microanalysis, where she place little toy solider men right in front of a really secured building. I found it sarcastic and funny at the same time interesting. Another was the Castle for People, and Trade Talks both which interacted with her viewers giving and gaining information. With Castles for the People, Siobhann made castles and tanks from empty cigarette boxes using the little notes on the boxes that people did not pay any attention to. Trade Talks, I thought was a very effective way to get peoples attention. Cooking free lunch in turn for stories is a marvelous strategy.

Siobhann Rigg does not focus on one specific topic but instead explores the different things the world has to offer. I must say that I did not only love her exhibition but also appreciated her way of expresses art in a different form.

I would also like to walk that walk through route 1.

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