Filmmaker and visual artist Floris Kaayk explores science fiction as online storytelling in 'The Modular Body', a series of 56 interconnected videos that constitute an over-arching online science fiction storytelling project. This sprawling online narrative, designed in collaboration with LUSTlab
In his interview for Creators projects, Kaayk said:
“Usually the headlines of those kind of articles present it as if it's already possible to create operational organs with currently available technology,” Kaayk says. “If you start to read further, you'll discover that this field of research is still in a very early stage. It's not possible yet to print functioning, vascularized organs—maybe in 30-40 years, but right now it's science fiction.”
“I thought: Why would we print an organ exactly in the same shape as the one we already have? Why wouldn't we use this opportunity to improve it?” Kaayk recalls. “Or even more extreme: if we can print organs and body parts, why not completely redefine and redesign the human body? That's when I started approaching the current human body as a closed system. Difficult to repair or adapt, maybe even obsolete. An open, modular system could become immortal, and adaptable.” (more on https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/sci-fi-vlog-tells-the-anatomically-strange-story-of-the-modular-body)
The basic concept of Oscar, a modular body, is explained clearly: The human body is a lumbering, closed system, but isn’t it more practical to change it into an open system that could upgrade to infinitive extend. Although Oscar, The modular body is narratives science fiction story, conceptual and product design are a good hoax.
In his interview for Creators projects, Kaayk said:
“Usually the headlines of those kind of articles present it as if it's already possible to create operational organs with currently available technology,” Kaayk says. “If you start to read further, you'll discover that this field of research is still in a very early stage. It's not possible yet to print functioning, vascularized organs—maybe in 30-40 years, but right now it's science fiction.”
“I thought: Why would we print an organ exactly in the same shape as the one we already have? Why wouldn't we use this opportunity to improve it?” Kaayk recalls. “Or even more extreme: if we can print organs and body parts, why not completely redefine and redesign the human body? That's when I started approaching the current human body as a closed system. Difficult to repair or adapt, maybe even obsolete. An open, modular system could become immortal, and adaptable.” (more on https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/sci-fi-vlog-tells-the-anatomically-strange-story-of-the-modular-body)
Project website: http://themodularbody.com/
Project facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/The-Modular-Body-1722218288023185/
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