Ryan Egan 

The hybridization of art and technology, as well as our contemporary state of information proliferation, continues to define and modify our existing realities by reimagining bodies, interactions, and our sphere as a whole. This thesis investigates how emerging technologies, with their expanding possibilities and abstractions, have inspired novel artistic possibilities and pushed understandings of nature to its limits. The thesis also explores how these technologies have challenged traditional views of what constitutes a work of art. Art has been able to raise awareness of the structural and broader political factors that underpin mainstream user-friendly technologies through exposing the patterns that lurk behind the surface of efficiency. In addition to being a weapon of collective presence and political resistance, contemporary technology also paradoxically confines humans to a user surface. This paper explores the implications of these factors on art creation, social reality and the human experience. Finally, this thesis reflects on the ways technologies have altered the relationship we have with our bodies and how cyborg artists are challenging the fundamentals of what it means to be human through experimentation and performance.