The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture

The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture. Bruce Greenville, editor. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, and Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002.

Reviewed by Christopher Bolton, "The Illustrated Posthuman." Science Fiction Studies #90 = 30.2 (July 2003): 308-10, our source for this entry.[1]

Catalog for an art exhibit that exhibited and juxtaposed in one space "a wide range of art that invokes mechanical or mechanized bodies, from Eadweard Muybridge’s nineteenth-century photographic studies of animal locomotion to work by contemporary Japanese visual artists such as Takashi Murakami and Mariko Mori [...]" (Bolton p. 308). The catalog includes "over sixty photographs, many in color [...]. The art covers a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, film and video, performance art, and industrial design" (Bolton 309).

There are also essays, including Grenville's preface, which "traces the cyborg through several historical moments" (Bolton p. 308), and reprints of essays relevant for the Uncanny and/or cyborgs