Cloud Composite

     The big idea I was working with for this image was that of the Cyborg, as described in Sweeny's article. I understood the cyborg as a symbiosis between humans and technology. In this cyborg state, the mechanization would be imbued with humanity, and humanity in turn would be embedded with the broadening systems of communication and progress of technology. I saw in both modern technology and the concept of humanity and people themselves a network, a system. Both run along lines of electric impulses to function, to carry information and communicate. Our hearts and hard drives pump and heat to flow energy and life into body and spirit, whether it be of flesh and sinew or metal and plastic. To communicate my understanding of the cyborg visually, I created a composite image where the grid-map of the human body flows into the circuitry of a computer. At the center of the chip, whose circuits connect to the human brain, hinting at synapses, is a human heart receiving life-giving maintenance from a god-like human hand and tool. Two hands, one robotic and one human, shake at the bottom of the image inside of the human body, showing a bonding connection between technology and people.