{"id":10220,"date":"2018-09-06T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=10220"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:47","slug":"art-design-professor-aims-to-make-technology-more-personable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/06\/art-design-professor-aims-to-make-technology-more-personable\/","title":{"rendered":"Art &#038; Design professor aims to make technology more personable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10221\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10221\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10221\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"349\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg 349w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophia Brueckner, assistant professor of art and design and of information, refers to herself as a cyborg. (Scott C. Soderberg, Michigan Photography)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When most people think of a cyborg, they may think of a half-human, half-machine hybrid akin to Arnold Schwarzenegger in \u201cTerminator.\u201d <strong>Sophia Brueckner<\/strong> would argue a bit differently about what being a cyborg means, <a href=\"http:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/art-design-professor-aims-make-technology-more-personable\">as she considers herself to be one<\/a>. \u201cTo me, being a cyborg doesn\u2019t just mean biohacking or body modification. There are other ways we become part human and part machine,\u201d said the assistant professor of art and design, and of information.<\/p>\n<p>As a faculty member at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, Brueckner brings her sensitivity to technology\u2019s effects and her focus on envisioning alternative futures to her students through a class called \u201cSci-Fi Prototyping.\u201d\u00a0Brueckner utilizes her diverse background in art and design as well as engineering to make technology more personable. \u201cEach of these disciplines works in a different way and uses a different vocabulary. My challenge is to apply what I\u2019ve learned to build bridges between these disciplines through both my research and teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most people think of a cyborg, they may think of a half-human, half-machine hybrid akin to Arnold Schwarzenegger in \u201cTerminator.\u201d Sophia Brueckner would argue a bit differently about what being a cyborg means, as she considers herself to be one. \u201cTo me, being a cyborg doesn\u2019t just mean biohacking or body modification. There are other ways we\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/06\/art-design-professor-aims-to-make-technology-more-personable\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[217,109,65],"class_list":["post-10220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-culture","tag-design","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg",349,232,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg",349,232,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg",349,232,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg",349,232,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg",349,232,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-350x300.jpg",350,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg",349,232,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180904_spot-bruecknersophia-e1538064251134.jpg",349,232,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"When most people think of a cyborg, they may think of a half-human, half-machine hybrid akin to Arnold Schwarzenegger in \u201cTerminator.\u201d Sophia Brueckner would argue a bit differently about what being a cyborg means, as she considers herself to be one. \u201cTo me, being a cyborg doesn\u2019t just mean biohacking or body modification. 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