AN ONTOLOGY FOR A FRAGILE MALE EGO
An Ontology for A Fragile Male Ego is an ongoing series of large-format illustrations that imagine the connections behind male identity expression within an infinitely complex new media age.
Building on architectural historian Mark Jarzombek’s ‘Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age’, in which he rethinks the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology, the drawing series has been developed by creating two-dimensional visualisations from building a three-dimensional sculpture of a human body and brain connected to a smartphone. The drawings act as open worksheets as communication tools between computer scientists, anthropologists, AI specialists, and philosophers on the factors at play within the definition of self and develop a language to investigate the psychology of the ego and the mechanisms of testosterone on cognitive functions and identity expression for contemporary male identity.
Keywords - Artificial Intelligence, Body-Architecture, Cognition, Computer Science, Consumer Psychology, Cybernetics, Digital- Matter, Fashion Identity, Fine-Art, Human-Computer Interaction, Identity Systems, New Media, Ontology, Parametricism, Post-Humanism, Psychology, Web3
Building on architectural historian Mark Jarzombek’s ‘Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age’, in which he rethinks the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology, the drawing series has been developed by creating two-dimensional visualisations from building a three-dimensional sculpture of a human body and brain connected to a smartphone. The drawings act as open worksheets as communication tools between computer scientists, anthropologists, AI specialists, and philosophers on the factors at play within the definition of self and develop a language to investigate the psychology of the ego and the mechanisms of testosterone on cognitive functions and identity expression for contemporary male identity.
Keywords - Artificial Intelligence, Body-Architecture, Cognition, Computer Science, Consumer Psychology, Cybernetics, Digital- Matter, Fashion Identity, Fine-Art, Human-Computer Interaction, Identity Systems, New Media, Ontology, Parametricism, Post-Humanism, Psychology, Web3
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An Ontology for a Fragile Male Ego #3
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
An Ontology for a Fragile Male Ego #3 (detail)
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
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An Ontology for a Fragile Male Ego #1 (detail)
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
191(h)x152cm(w)cm
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
191(h)x152cm(w)cm
An Ontology for a Fragile Male Ego #1
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
191(h)x152cm(w)cm
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
191(h)x152cm(w)cm
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An Ontology for a Fragile Male Ego #1 (detail)
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
191(h)x152cm(w)cm
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
191(h)x152cm(w)cm
An Ontology for a Fragile Male Ego #2
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
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An Ontology for a Fragile Male Ego #2
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
Digitally-drawn, hand finished giclee print, pencil & oil paint
127(h)x191(w)cm
AN ONTOLOGY FOR A FRAGILE MALE EGO
Artist - Adam Peacock