What is a 'cyborg'?

“For the exogenously extended organizational complex functioning as an integrated homeostatic system unconsciously, we propose the term ‘Cyborg,'” wrote Clynes and his co-author Kline, who both taught at Rockland State University. The term was coined with an eye toward space travel, the greatest scientific project of the 60s.

Who invented the cyborg?

In 1960, Manfred Clynes coined the term “cyborg” 13 for a paper he coauthored with Nathan Kline for a NASA conference on space exploration.14 As conceived by Clynes and Kline, the cyborg—a portmanteau of “cybernetics” and “organism” 14 —was not merely an amalgam of synthetic and organic parts.

What is a cyborg in art?

The concept of the cyborg is often associated with science fiction. However, many artists have incorporated and reappropriated the idea of cybernetic organisms into their work, using disparate aesthetics and often realising actual cyborg constructs; their works range from performances, to paintings and installations.

What is an example of a cyborg?

In a typical example, a human with an artificial cardiac pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator would be considered a cyborg, since these devices measure voltage potentials in the body, perform signal processing, and can deliver electrical stimuli, using this synthetic feedback mechanism to keep that person alive.