Photography Illustration Fusion: Sci-fi Cyberpunk Theme – Robots and Synthetic Biology – Nanomech weave

Image by Diego Indracollo and Pok U Chan for Schon! Magazine – all rights reserved – click for full size

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Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet.  Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future.

Two London creatives, Diego Indracollo (photography) and Pok U Chan (illustration) have come together under the art direction of Kay Korsch to produce some incredible visual concepts. This one in particular, has a very futuristic flavour. A woman, human or otherwise, revelling in the fluid weave of extraneous technology: some organic, snake-like familiar, as might be used by a medieval sorceress, but in this case by the next-generation of homosapien.  Traveller.  Adventurer.  Functional consumer.  Genomed to extrude like hair and chiffon fabric, but bristling with receptors and loaded with offensive anti-personnel systems: cardiotoxins, constriction or neural distruption from a single touch. If non-organic, then this technology fits into the mould of Nanomech; with the gossamer appearance of spider silk, the consistencyof warm hydrogel, and the strength and conductive qualities of aerographite.  Wearable and re-configurable on command, it can conceal bodily areas to conform with the cultural dress codes of any place; or facilitate 360-awareness, dispersed processing power and digitally augmented senses through direct interface into the neural cortex.

A great shot that captures a nude in almost manga-like motion. She’s the pin-up girl of cyborgs and Carbon-88s.

LINKS RELEVANT TO THIS ARTICLE:

• Diego Indracollo (photography)
• Pok U Chan (illustration)

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Cyberpunk Art ¦ Hand-crafted female simulacra with silk laced spine by Choi Xooang

Image and Artwork by Choi Xooang – All Rights Reserved

Part of a series of images from the shadowy fringes of the Internet.  Visuals that stir my sense for the eerie and macabre.

Seoul based artist Choi Xooang makes incredible lifelike representations of the human form with often grotesque, disturbing or strikingly surreal…variations.  From groups of gossiping bipedal beings that leer with mouths without a face; through males who writhe with giant feet and monstrously large penis in full-erection; to eerily “perfect” formed vagina, proffered by contorted figures with legs splayed and forced back, exposing such parts to raw scrutiny, void of hair and glistening.  This isn’t pornography.  This is confrontation of cultural and social taboos. Choi Xooang exaggerates features as if using the transliterated graphic metaphor of coming after the viewer with a sledgehammer.

A candy-flesh wrapped lady for your wildest fantasy of gore, voyeurism and sex.

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This particular image is one of the artist’s more subtle pieces. Woven into that subtlety is a darkness that can press a chill into the flesh of any warm-blooded human, and cause an ache of horror to throb through your bones. What kind of gift is this, where you can untie and unwrap the skin to feast upon naked muscle, blood vessels and nervous tissue?  That’s if there is anything organic beneath there at all. Regardless, you’re looking at the concept of creating something living to suit tastes of pleasure that are normally beyond the scope of what society offers up as “things to enjoy”.

Synthetic biology is emerging as the “industrial revolution” of the 21st Century. When oil giants create carnage with spills that devastate a hundred miles of coastline, they’re now turning to the bio-tech firms to “create” something that they can thrown into the sea to eat the oil.  Human endeavour will lead to increasingly complex organisms being developed.  We’re now trudging onto the first slabs of a path that will take us into extraordinary moral dilemma. Bladerunners – we salute you – we recruit you – we misunderstand our prejudice and are blind to the corporations who downsize ethics in the pursuit of profit.

I highly recommend you explore the visually stunning yet sometimes freakish art of Choi Xooang via official website.

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WiP: Proteus Syndrome – research and ale

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An excellent evening spent in company of a scientist I arranged rendezvous with; supping dark local ale and discussing synthetic biology applications that can fit the plot of the new novel (one of them) called Proteus Syndrome. Came up with a unnervingly plausible scenario for biological crowd control concept; and the consequences of a project allowed to slip out of control on a remote Greek island. Enter characters stage left…

Probably a couple years away from writing it but I’m having great fun mapping out plot ideas and giving the notes enough shape to be able to walk away and come back again.

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