The intermediate performance CORPOMÁQUINA addresses the conflict between intelligence and conscience, the reflection on the limit of man and machine and their inevitable fusion: biological versus synthetic, human versus post-human, body versus machine. What is human when the boundaries between humanity and technology are blurred?

From this thought, the interest for rethinking the body, movement and performance emerges in the face of the new dynamics of networks, integrated circuits and devices. Based on the study of the fusion of languages, the interdependence of devices and the extension of expression, the performance is proposed as a co-creation experiment between biological device (performer) and synthetic device (muscle sensors and video projection), in a extropic narrative of ascension (human evolution), integration (body and machine) and transcendence (post integration).

For the show, a proper movement translation system was developed, using electromyography (EMG) muscle medical sensors integrated into the Arduino prototyping platform (microcontroller), hacked to perform tension reading, distending the performer's muscle movements, transforming them in sound generators. As a visual proposal, the Kinect motion sensor is used, reprogrammed to perform video body mapping and generation of visual graphics from the performer's movement, in real time. These technologies are used to perform a show based on retro creative experimentation between device and body.