"Enlightenment is mythic fear turned radical (becoming more human than human)"

Essay by the U.S. Commissioner for the 2006 Cairo Biennale Gilbert Vicario on the work of artist Daniel Joseph Martínez. It was first published in the catalogue that accompanied the United States Pavilion. The essay contains an analysis of: the artist’s experimentation with animatronic technology to convey credible parallels of human life; his inquisitive relationship with the titles of his works (which often involves making use of appropriation of literary of philosophical texts); and his investigation of the relationship between technology and cognitive evolution.