Making Kin: Cells, Software, Synthetic Selves

In today’s episode, we are joined by artists Charlotte Jarvis and Zoran Srdić Janežič, and writer, educator, and curator Rick Dolphijn to discuss entities at the intersection of wetware, software, and hardware, and how they challenge our definitions of life, reproduction, parenthood, or care.

Resources:

Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis
Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism by Silvia Federici
Testo Junkie by Paul Preciado
Humanistic Narratives by Michel Serres
Thumbelina: the culture and technology of millennials by Michel Serres
The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti
Posthuman Feminism by Rosi Braidotti
Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway
The Philosophy of Matter: A Meditation by Rick Dolphijn

Revivification (Exhibition) by Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Gingold
Ani Liu
Ai Hasegawa
Errorarium by Adam Zaretsky

(later edits, suggested by Zoran Srdić Janežič)
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
Dune by Frank Herbert
Southern Reach Series by Jeff VanderMeer
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Host & Producer: Ana-Maria Carabelea
Editing: Ana-Maria Carabelea
Music: Karl Julian Schmidinger

The Digital Deal Podcast (currently Art Is Not a Thing) was part of European Digital Deal, a project co-funded by Creative Europe and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport.  Views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the host and guests only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) can be held responsible for them.