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EDITORIAL Editorial This special issue of Neural ('Artificial Corporality ’) explores the ever-evolving state of the human body as it navigates the liminal space between digital and physical dimensions. This exploration questions the implications of grounding our bodies to the Earth while simultaneously immersing and evolving in a digital multiverse. This issue explores the intricacies of the artificial physicality that all digitally entangled bodies - both technological and human - are experiencing today. We focus on the fluidity of digital identities, the performativity of virtual platforms, and the experiences of bodies traversing and moving through multiple dimensions and multiple digital media. It was co-edited with Zane Cerpina and is an independent extension of the Meta.Morf - Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology - 2024, conceived and curated by TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre (Norway) and V2_ the Lab for Unstable Media (Netherlands). Under the title [up]Loaded Bodies, the eighth edition of the Biennale explores ‘ the physical and technological body caught between virtual ecstasy and digital obesity ’. This issue contains four interviews: Boris Eldagsen discusses artificial corporeality from his perspective as a photographer and promptographer, addressing how bodies are mutating in the age of artificial intelligence. Maya Man explores the fragmented nature of digital personalities, revealing the complex dynamics of constructing and deconstructing oneself online and the love-hate relationship many of us have developed with social media; Molly Soda reflects on her online identity as an ever-evolving performance and emphasises the importance of preserving each digital trace as a marker of her personal development. Martinus Suijkerbuijk challenges the notion of digital dominance in creative processes and argues for a critical re-evaluation of the way the body and its artistic expressions are reconstructed in the age of generative AI. In a commissioned essay, Valentina Tanni explores the merging of digital and physical realms. She illustrates the transformation of the internet from a separate space to an omnipresent reality and highlights the social struggle between digital omnipresence and physical disembodiment. This issue features an artistic intervention by Tim Høibjerg, consisting of an AR sculpture entitled Ejector, which is activated via the published QR code printed on a separate card. The sculpture is the first AR work in the Neural series of artistic interventions in the printed magazine. The work is an extension of Høibjerg’s project of the same name (produced during a residency at V2 and subsequently exhibited as a 3D-printed sculpture and video narrative at Meta.Morf ), which explores digital ontology and an ever-evolving sense of self and identity against the backdrop of digital advancement. Zane Cerpina and Alessandro Ludovico 02 Neural — ISSUE 73
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Editorial

This special issue of Neural ('Artificial Corporality ’) explores the ever-evolving state of the human body as it navigates the liminal space between digital and physical dimensions. This exploration questions the implications of grounding our bodies to the Earth while simultaneously immersing and evolving in a digital multiverse. This issue explores the intricacies of the artificial physicality that all digitally entangled bodies - both technological and human - are experiencing today. We focus on the fluidity of digital identities, the performativity of virtual platforms, and the experiences of bodies traversing and moving through multiple dimensions and multiple digital media. It was co-edited with Zane Cerpina and is an independent extension of the Meta.Morf - Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology - 2024, conceived and curated by TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre (Norway) and V2_ the Lab for Unstable Media (Netherlands). Under the title [up]Loaded Bodies, the eighth edition of the Biennale explores ‘ the physical and technological body caught between virtual ecstasy and digital obesity ’. This issue contains four interviews: Boris Eldagsen discusses artificial corporeality from his perspective as a photographer and promptographer, addressing how bodies are mutating in the age of artificial intelligence. Maya Man explores the fragmented nature of digital personalities, revealing the complex dynamics of constructing and deconstructing oneself online and the love-hate relationship many of us have developed with social media; Molly Soda reflects on her online identity as an ever-evolving performance and emphasises the importance of preserving each digital trace as a marker of her personal development. Martinus Suijkerbuijk challenges the notion of digital dominance in creative processes and argues for a critical re-evaluation of the way the body and its artistic expressions are reconstructed in the age of generative AI. In a commissioned essay, Valentina Tanni explores the merging of digital and physical realms. She illustrates the transformation of the internet from a separate space to an omnipresent reality and highlights the social struggle between digital omnipresence and physical disembodiment. This issue features an artistic intervention by Tim Høibjerg, consisting of an AR sculpture entitled Ejector, which is activated via the published QR code printed on a separate card. The sculpture is the first AR work in the Neural series of artistic interventions in the printed magazine. The work is an extension of Høibjerg’s project of the same name (produced during a residency at V2 and subsequently exhibited as a 3D-printed sculpture and video narrative at Meta.Morf ), which explores digital ontology and an ever-evolving sense of self and identity against the backdrop of digital advancement. Zane Cerpina and Alessandro Ludovico

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