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Art has always been inseparable from its techniques. If the Renaissance brought scientists and artists closer together, the rapid development of the new technologies, particularly that of information processing, inaugurated a new era of close collaboration between the worlds of science and the arts. As an open domain that is constantly being redefined, art has become a fertile field for experiments carried out with instruments whose complexity sharpens artists' imaginations.

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cyborg

The cyborg theme is an extension of a very ancient myth, that of the post-human double, the best-known examples of which are the figures of the golem, the robot and the android. The cyborg is by definition the result produced by integrating organic life into a machine. Research into the area of artificial intelligence is currently sparking new interest, due to recent progress in communications technologies and the media arts. Drawing on robotics and cybernetics, artists are now using interactive systems in an attempt to reproduce and, quite frequently, go beyond human capacities.