Meeting with Clive McCarthy 30/09

What does it mean to be human?

Can human be measured?

• Human as a process
• Human elements highlighted externally
  • Prosthetics
  • Metal plates
• What passes for human – in a planetary sense i.e. the water found on Mars
• Illusions – human entities
• Postive/negative sides of being human
  • Moral compass – what makes up the moral compass?
• Joel Peter Witkin – Still lives including human body parts
  • Nazi death camps – lampshades made of human skin
    • Does this mean they are no longer human?
    • Should they be buried?
• Augmented reality – virtual human gallery
• 3D printing – human as object
  • Does this make it no longer human?

Research – Forum to pose questions:

Pose the question to participants ‘what does human mean to you?’, this could in the form of a workshop or using social media. This could also take the form of questions and a scoring system, does something qualify as a human?