The Digitized Bodies -Virtual Spectacles interactive CD-ROM presents options for participants to investigate conceptual, ethical, socio-cultural and pragmatic issues related to the changing perceptions of the human body as reflected by recent bioscientific advances. This CD was inspired by the magnitude of recent advances in the biosciences and the seductive power of digital technologies which permeated practically every aspect of our daily life.

What is the nature of the technological enticement captivating scientists and artists alike? How is the interior of our body rendered into a landscape of fictionalized travel? How is the language of this travel described in popular culture? How do we relate to our new sensory environments? How can we decipher the ambiguities surrounding the documented data body? Simultaneously, how can we obtain precise information about ourselves, particularly in the coded terms of medical science? How can we preserve our individual integrity without becoming mere electronic spectacles? How do scientists and artists relate to newly surfacing ethical questions related to these issues?

The CD evokes these questions through seven thematic spheres. Over twenty artists, scientists, clinicians, cultural theorists, art historians, from three countries (Canada, Hungary and Slovenia) , contributed their views and their work to the topics charted by the CD, which was developed at C3 Center for Culture and Communication and produced in collaboration with Erika Katalina Pásztor of Ars Wonderland Studio together with Levente Zsigmond Sipos, Csilla Cecília Bálint and Gabriella Juhász in Budapest.

NINA CZEGLEDY ON THE
INTIMATE PERCEPTIONS