The Meta.Morf 2024 – [up]Loaded Bodies Conference explores the physical and technological body caught between virtual ecstasy and digital obesity. How to understand our place in a world where technologies blur the lines between the digital and the physical? Where everyone is in an endless state of loading—the living and dead, the human and non-human, the born and synthetic? This flux of physical-to-digital-and-back is reshaping every aspect of our existence—how we love, interact, identify, cognize, and even contemplate The End. [up]Loaded Bodies examines the liminal space where the body is put at the ridge between the tangible and intangible. The conference invites you to engage with critical questions about our coexistence and co-evolution with digital technologies. What is the status quo of [up]Loaded Bodies?
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[up]Loaded Bodies Conference Program