Posthumanism and Cybernetic Art: An Esthetic Exploration of Technology and Human Identity

ABSTRACT Posthumanism is a contemporary intellectual movement that redefines the relationship between humans, technology, biology, and culture. While questioning the traditional humanist perspective that places humans at the center of the universe, it also examines the transformative effects of technology on human identity. This study explores the esthetic and ethical dimensions of posthumanist thought through the new perspectives on human identity offered by cybernetic art. Contemporary artistic practices aligned with posthumanist thinking produce experimental works that reshape the human body through biotechnology and artificial intelligence, questioning identity, the body, and subjectivity. The works created by contemporary artists using artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and cybernetic systems raise new epistemological and ontological questions about how art may evolve in the posthuman era. The application of cybernetic systems to art has led to new esthetic paradigms. This article analyzes human–machine interactions and their effects on esthetic transformations in art. The study demonstrates that cybernetic art functions as a critical field in which human, technological, and nonhuman relations are actively reconfigured through technological mediation, redistributed agency, and relational subjectivity.