last weeks’ human 2.0 conference at the media lab was astonishing: hugh herr and john hockenberry banded together to paint a picture of a future where disability can be leveraged as a way to gain super-human capacities. i highly recommend watching the streaming video; both the morning and afternoon broadcasts are available. the most amazing part was a talk by aimee mullins, an athlete, a model and an actress with both legs amputated below the knees. she compared prosthetic legs to eyeglasses, and in the same way that we wear designer eyeglasses she has designer legs (she was wearing her 4-inch heel legs for the talk). she made it clear that with enough attitude you could pull off anything as she left the crowd dumbstruck with her presence. probably the reason she was featured in matthew barney’s cremaster cycle:
