[eWarrior]: I’m interested in creating some “contemporary” nudes and struggling (I guess) with what “contemporary” means anyway. Genetic engineering and the intersection of humans and technology are themes which I think I can visually convey.

[Mac]: I think the trick is how to convey these very important themes subtly, as opposed to the “in-your-face” school of transhuman art (which has always bothered me because most of it seems excessively fetishistic.)

[eWarrior]: Exactly. Something like this: the loteks in Wm Gibson’s old stories did things to themselves in a fetishistic way, like getting real shark’s teeth. In-your-face. Time passes, people get used to it, pretty soon some super-model is sporting the "next big thing." And she looks cute. It’s what the super-model does that I’m after.

[Mac]: I’m facinated by the whole supermodel thing, a minor obsession that resulted in an unfinished (but interesting) short story about genetically engineered fashion models. I think models are the Delphic oracles of the cybernetic age.

[eWarrior]: Poised, self-confident, and in control. See the same model, later on, "behind the scenes," and she is a "mere mortal" after all. Something else was there.

[Mac]: Right!

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