I am Nothuman: Forbidden to Humans

Do you feel out of place? Do you feel uncomfortable in this system? Don't think you are different. Know you are. Declare yourself not human to take away from the template.

This presentation by Federico Bucalossi revolves around the concept of “nothuman” as a critical reflection on the present condition of the body and the self in the contemporary digital society. Bucalossi has been working on the critical interferences between the digital and the bodily since the ‘90s, coming from punk experience and the Italian counterculture scene of independent social centres. As part of the Strano Network collective and individually, in 1998 he developed a series of project on the subject of “being not/human”, combining different media and practices (videos, t-shirts, electronic music, happenings and theatrical performances) and applying a mimimalist/reductionist approach, in order to perform empowered states of consciousness. In the afterglow of the post-digital era, the concept of nothuman is extended into the development of an independent online community, as an ironical embodiment of the zombified self in social media practices (www.nothuman.net).

Introduced by Tatiana Bazzichelli.