Lynn Hershman Leeson | Art Discussion Topic | Seduction Of A Cyborg 1994

Seduction Of A Cyborg - 1994

In this video clip this cyborg was born with eyes that lack the ability to absorb light. In the video it states that her ability to hear was acute. She could hear well enough. I feel that the artist was trying to state at the beginning that we are born innocent to the facts and untainted by humanity. Meaning that we have not yet been influenced in anyway. We are free of worry and have the outlook of a child at the beginning stage of this cyborg. 

This cyborg learn about the world through a computer and provided stimulation and entertainment for it. You would also see the doctor who works on her/cyborg to mold her. On this video the doctor seems to be doing experiments to see how the cyborg will react to different stimulus. In my opinion I think they are try to illustrate that this is how some of us would react to these type of stimulus. Having infected the body by manipulating computer chips to see how  we would react. In this case the doctor is working on the cyborg. The doctor is seducing the women into cyborghood. The doctor is using what looks like radio waves to get the women to submit through what looks like mind control or brain washing techniques. The women look like they are drugged as well before they are force fed the information through a computer. It also stated that the images that were fed through the computer were pleasant and entertaining to the woman. Then she was addicted to the computer quickly. Which in reality is actually quite true. People get addicted to computers, smartphones, tv, etc. pretty quickly. It is actually quite scary to think that this can be true. Even the music seem very pleasant and it was almost like a lullaby. There was water trickling down. I think they put that in because water seems to have a calming quality to it. Just like when it rains and you sit there listening to the water hit the roof or the ground. There is something soothing about that. This brings you to a false sense of trust in the situation. So after the doctor gets you into the false sense of trust he starts to work on you again. Bombarding the women's head with radio waves. 

The woman amune system suffer because of these test. But at this point she is so addicted to it already she couldn't help herself. Just like someone who it addicted to drugs. It was a downward spiral from there. She had been a witness to the pollution of history and her body surcamed to the inevitable. 

https://youtu.be/nc9efa0j8O4