Human Nature, hee hee

HUMAN NATURE - Ars Electronica Festival 2009 September 3-8, 2009

At the very outset of the 21st century, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we have entered a new age here on Earth: the Anthropocene. An age definitively characterized by humankind’s massive impact on our physical surroundings. An age whose most emblematic manifestations have been population explosion, climate change, the poisoning of the environment and our venturing into outer space. Heretofore. But now, it’s not only the environment that we’re changing. It’s the fundamentals of life itself—the fundamentals of our own life—that are being subjected to humankind’s will to custom-design our world.
This HUMAN NATURE will occupy the focal point at the next Ars Electronica Festival September 3-8, 2009 amidst a mix of speculative futuristic designs and provocative actionism, philosophical debate and analytical scrutiny.