This project includes producing a short experimental animation that features both
innovative concepts and high production values in relation to the theme “The Posthuman”. The theme of human relationship to technology is a common concern in contemporary animation and film making. The underlying concept is how people relate to one another and the world they live in when faced with rapid change and the challenges of survival in the contemporary society. Many different philosophical positions exist in response to this idea. Some believe we are already posthuman –that people are so integrated with technology in the developed world and that without it we would find it hard to survive at all. Others believe that we as a species will be superseded by a transhuman race – that is better adapted to the new living conditions. Some think this is fantasy and science fiction, that essentially people are the same throughout the millennia and that any change is an illusion. Human nature
has not changed since the dawn of time – the same basic motivations drive every
person regardless of how the world may change. Others still take a reactionary
position and seek to point out the problems and issues caused by technological change.
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