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more-than-human — perspectives on technology and futurity critically analyse from various perspectives not only the use of technology as a capitalist device and tool but also its impact on human existence. Reflecting on the complex relationship between these two realms, the films explore the interchangeability between the natural and the artificial, the robotic and the organic, and the tensions that arise from these processes.
Over the past two decades, the radical transformation and/or transcendence of the human condition through technology have given rise to profound ethical and philosophical enquiries. From a theoretical standpoint, this involves contemplating the advantages and risks associated with personal identity, emerging forms of otherness, equality and social justice, death and immortality, as well as religion and the meaning of life. From a practical perspective, artificial intelligence and human-machine hybridisation raise ethical concerns pertaining to physical, cognitive, and moral enhancement, as well as issues related to defence and security.
God, human, or more-than-human? A future of technological transcendence through biohacking, cognitive optimisation, and other biomedical technologies aims at overcoming the physical dimension—the expansion and preservation of consciousness into a new biological-artificial body. Technology operates as a promise of omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience: in other words, immortality.
Artists: Alexandre Estrela; Alice dos Reis; Alison Nguyen; AnaMary Bilbao; Andreia Santana; Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme; Cao Fei; Cécile B. Evans; Diogo Evangelista; Gabriel Abrantes; Igor Jesus; Isadora Neves Marques; Lou Cantor; Miguel Soares; Odete; Pedro Barateiro; Salomé Lamas; Trevor Paglen; Vitória Cribb; Zach Blas. 
Authors: Alberta Romano; Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro; Ana Salazar Herrera; Anne Faucheret; Cristina Sanchez-Kozyreva; Eduarda Neves; David Revés; Gabriela Vaz-Pinheiro; Isabel Nogueira, João Sousa Cardoso; Luísa Santos; Manuel Bogalheiro; Maria Kruglyak; Marta Espiridião; Paula Ferreira; Rômulo Moraes, Sara Castelo Branco; Sara Magno; Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues; Sofia Nunes; Tobi Maier. 
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About — Celina Brás studied History, specializing in Art History, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. She completed the Arts Administration Program at Columbia University, New York, under the coordination of Joan Jeffri. Among her many seminars, the most notable is “What Economy, What Art, What Culture, What Value(s)?” by Arjo Klamer from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Jack Amariglio from Merrimack College, US. She has managed several cultural projects in the area of performing arts. She founded Casa Conveniente with Mónica Calle, Álvaro Correia, and Luís Fonseca. She has developed work proposals on the formation of new audiences. She is the founder, director, and editor of the magazine Contemporânea since 2015, where she edits, directs, and coordinates all the monthly digital editions and thematic printed editions. She was recently artistic director, programmer, and editor of the project Contemporânea Film(e) and is currently part of the Atlantic project. She lives and works in Lisbon.

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