Through Aimy Moon, who is both a virtual influencer and a virtual activist, The Cyborg Manifesto(2021) by TZUSOO discusses a text published in 1985 by Donna J. Haraway. In an interview, the artist says that Haraway's text is more meaningful than ever to our generation living in an era where virtual/digital images flood our lives. In this work, the words of the text are uttered through a fictional character that is not human, giving life and persuasiveness again to the past text of the Cyborg Manifesto. Aimy, a virtual figure, born by the artist, is actively working as an artificial intelligence composer on metaverse platforms and social media while working as a virtual activist in the exhibition space. After returning home from working in the pop music scene, Aimy takes off its disturbing wig and uncomfortable clothes. It is time for it to float, dividing and multiplying in the digital world where it exists more freely than anyone else.

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Aimy, a fictional human born from an entertainment company and an artist, refers to itself as the illegitimate offspring, even though it is clear who gave birth to it. It declares that it is breaking the link between its birth-givers and itself while paradoxically borrowing a human hand to gain and maintain vitality. As Aimy’s declaration implies, cyborgs are creatures of the post-gender world that escape the gender binary imagination. As the artist mentions, Aimy, who “is neither woman, nor man, nor human, nor machine, nor a specific race, can tell its story freely”. It does not exist as a virtual human created for humans with poor imagination, but it shows the possibility of queer reproduction in the digital world. Aimy throws off all the disturbances of reality, existing in the realm of infinite possibilities where one can become anything as if born as a completely new being, rather than evolving/reproducing better genetic traits from those of its biological parents. Here Aimy declares to become a cyborg rather than a goddess! 

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Text by Gyusik Lee