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See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (SYX)
is the second volume of Madeline Schwartzman’s timely series that looks at human perception and the sensory apparatus.
See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (2011)—the first of the series—is a collection of fifty years
of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses. See Yourself X focuses in on our fundamental perceptual domain—the
human head—presenting an array of conceptual and constructed ideas for extending ourselves physically into space. What
will be the physical future of the head and the sensory apparatus in fifty years time, as the mechanisms for how we communicate
and sense change, and become obsolete, prompted by the advancement of brain-to-brain communication? SYX looks at where we
are now, in the hope of projecting into that future.
SYX
explores all forms of physical head augmentation, including new organs, hair extensions and hairdos, masks, head constructions
and gear, headdresses, prosthetics and helmets by artists, designers, inventors and scientists, as well as technological extensions
into space. Conceptual topics include the obliteration of the face in fashion, art and folk wedding costume; the politics
of hair extension from 18th century hair rolls to contemporary fashion; surrealistic juxtapositions of objects and the head;
gender, ritual and identity in contemporary art hair and hair constructions; space-age architectural helmets of the 60s, and
conceptual projects that highlight, analyze or deny the internal or perceived functioning of the head and brain. Everyone
with a head should be interested in this book
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