Gallery: Our Freakish Cyborg Future Looks Like a Dali Painting

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    Insula, a collaboration between the two artists Jon Jacobsen and Daniel Ramos Obgregón, illustrates what our cyborgian bodies could look like in the future.
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    Jon Jacobsen
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    Obgregón makes bizarre porcelain prosthetics. These accessories, like ceramic sculpted tongues and fingertips mounted onto wearable bronze frames, got Jacobsen's attention.
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    Jon Jacobsen
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    They hired a dancer to pose as a model, who struck many, many poses, so that Jacobsen could later animate the photos into GIFs.
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    Because the artists live in different countries, Jacobsen then sent the photos of the dancer to Obgregón, who posed the ceramic pieces in similar photos. Jacobsen then edited the slew of images together.
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    His morbid creations show electric sparks and airwaves coursing through the body. He calls it "a new digital homosapien."
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