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How are we to understand the impact of new developments in technology (artificial life, cybernetics, genomics, nanotechnology) on the way in which we experience our bodies? Is technology fundamentally disturbing to our sense of what it is to be human? Johnny Golding, Professor of Philosophy in the Visual Arts and Communication Technologies at the University of Greenwich, and Charlie Gere, art historian and author of Digital Culture, discuss some of the key issues concerning the relation between technology and the human. They are are joined by cultural theorist Joanna Zylinska, and the artist Stelarc, Principal Research Fellow in the Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent. The event is chaired by Gary Hall, author and founding co-editor of the online journal Culture Machine.