PREFACE

The tenth book in Marcus Vitruviuss De Architectura Libri Decem is on

mechanical engineering. This particular part of the manuscript was greatly
expanded during Renaissance to include inventions such as tanks, catapults
and other siege weapons used for warfare. Leonardo da Vinci being a
biomechanic, applied combination of natural science and mechanical
engineering to unveil mystery of life.
EX-PROSTHESIS
advanced technological knowledge and speculate that development will enhance
connectivity and integration in between organism and machine. This will expand
sense of presence beyond our physical limitations and alter relationship to
environment; time, distance, space and more. Advancement in Human Machine
Interface will have discerning impact on psychology of individual, social
organization and over all context among we live in. However EX-PROSTHESIS
is not to be confused with inventive endeavor, it is a Techno parody, satire that
makes deliberate but explicit attempt to evoke critical insight into broader
consequence of technology.
In EX-PROSTHESIS, technological intervention leads to unexpected event with
ironic twist for the protagonist = humanity. Apparent disconnection between
intent and consequence expose uncertainty of using these technology but
classical philosophy has limited capacity to decipher unintended event.
Encounter with absurdity of phenomenon can only be mitigated existentially.
EX-PROSTHESIS is eye for an eye strategy for combating absurd. Fictitious
juxtaposition between nature and machine, displaced time and location or
exaggerated social oblique in narratives are designed to create suspended state
to converge creatively and produce introspective assessment of our desire to

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EX-P0811 Swine Farm, a bio reactor

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EX-P0407 Brain Pod, zero carbon print house

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When did stick become a tool,

when did information become knowledge,
or when did parts become whole?
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a moment of eureka. The femur swung high above his head, it became a weapon.

use of technology has remained unpredictable and ambivalent .

on future as other mile stone

achievements in our past. And
these potentially paradigm
shifting ideas are right at our
front door steps. The prosthesis
for handicapped use what is
called Brain Machine Interface
(BMI). Laboratory experiments
show that living brain tissue
with electrodes can be
connected to a variety of

for disabled or neurologically paralyzed, other prospects for BMI are also
immense. All kinds of cognitive sensors will produce new experiences and
unthinkable array of product, mechanical extensions will enhance our
physical ability to sample the environment that were no accessible before: RCV
artery. In addition to enhanced interconnectivity, combination with nano science

But whether nano science, cybernetics or bioengineering, our attempt to use

these technology will have unintended consequences. Yet, our overly rationalized
and discounts negative consequence of deployment. Could this denial an
of linear advancement and increased dependency to technology have reached
the tipping point. Indeed excessive industrialization is causing inhuman despair
and misery in global scale, yet we are unable to refrain our temptation to continue
on this fatalistic path. Lack of our self regulating ability against harmful
consequences of excessive mechanization is a symptoms of our co-dependency
to technology. Rationalization, empiricism, science, reason, are fueled by our
desperate desire to control unpredictable in hope that outcome of action will
mirror our perception of what we think it should be. In an other words logic
is a predetermined assumption that exclude improbable/unintended thus
unable to embrace complexity and dynamics of phenomenon.
Artistic production promotes deviation from this dilemma and divest into creative
enterprise instead. Aleatory art use chance to promote creativity and rejects
graphics, Collage and Frontage for paintings do exactly that. These techniques/
method relay on chance and accident in order to promote creativity. Intuitive
discovery ignites creative process of visualization but at this stage mental
representation is typically depleted of content. It is during next phase of
erences are mixed, distilled, cultured to
matured together and then cultivate it into
knowledge. This process improves and
advances intellectual content of our mental
construction. The process will be complete
when oscillation among two hemispheres
of our cerebrum converges and achieve
dynamic interaction between intelligence
and creativity making whole from the parts.

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traveled through intercellular space on board submersible
in attempt to cure the comatose patient. The plot is based
on technology that allows matter to miniaturize by
shrinking individual atoms. Today micro-robot assembled
from nano-parts to treat medical condition is well within
probability rather than a fantasy. And its anticipated that
lives from bottom up. However the fear that toxic
consequence of atomic intervention could lead to
catastrophe is prevalent. Foresight Institute has
recommended regulating its commercial use. Prince
Charles and Royal Society investigated it and called it enormous environmental and social
risk and expressed apprehension for open development of this technology. Beside from the
of the world scenario with nano technology. In book Engines of Creation he postulated
possibility for self-replicating nano robots with exponential growth that end up consuming
all matter on earth. When advanced biomechanics is combined with nano scale production,
it is likely that machine will evolve to assemble itself. Atomically constructed molecular machine

Atomically constructed molecular

machine that copy itself will
indeed blur threshold that

organization of clusters made of swarm of nano-robots, design of macro factory

that manufactures nano product to engineering of individual biomechanics
devices. it envisions construction of life-like machine assembled from molecular
parts such as carbon allotropes and atomically engineered tissue.

Howling Monkeys
A specimen of genetically
speculation is that this specimen
may have seen genetic
intervention and served as a
human dwelling during post-

archeological expedition from

Magna Opus University while exploring ancient ruins in deep jungle of
Central America, formally known as Costa Rica. When the specimen was
discovered ethel alcohol production based on sugar fermentation process
was still operating and a tribe of howling monkeys who occupied the tree
were aggressively defending their monopolized enterprise against any
eco-diversity and complexity that bio-mass of immediate perimeter of the
tree has been enriched by tenfold in comparison.

platforms with canopy, two interior rooms and a pool. The process of photosynthesis
convert suns energy to break down waters molecular structure, hydrogen from oxygen
then combined them with carbon dioxide to produce glucose. Subsequently excess sugar
is fermented and distilled into ethel alcohol as source of energy for HVAC, hydraulics
and distillery.

Altered DNA carries information, a blue print for the house,

Swine Farm
a bio reactor

like cows and sheep are able to digest coarse vegetation through microbial fermentation. Many
of the energy in cereal crops that are grown for food is inedible. Ruminants have the ability to
convert these plants and residues into high quality protein in the form of meat and milk.

Brain Pod
zero carbon print house

of living humans globally but not accounting ones who are being born into and those who are

Emission trading began as a market based incentive in order to control harmful pollutant in
this situation more perplexing, the estimated carbon dioxide and methane gas emission during
life cycle of a person were converted and translated in way of tax credit. Since then
speculative trade in carbon credit has become another investment vehicle. Subsequently,
sustaining semi-cryonic device so will not emit pollutant into air. A heat exchange unit keeps
external reality but wheather experience is true or fabricated remain matter of a opinion.

Mas Yendo