What does control over one’s bodily identity mean? Do we control our body properties, or are they controlled by the media that condition the body in the first place? In our physical interaction with technology, are our body capacities the object or the subject of the action? The answer lies in understanding human subjectivity and technological individuality as two sides of the same iterative process. Nigredo, the artwork that will be discussed here, re-appropriates biologically informed computational methods towards a critical questioning of the formation of human subjectivity. The work questions the role of computational technologies in the formation of human beings in the era of the commodification of all that lives. This is done by delving into the relations amongst transindividuation, bodily performativity and biomediation, cultural notions that permeate the technological and political domains.

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