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Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?
露西·麦克蕾：怎样用科技改造人体？
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TED Fellow露西·麦克蕾是一个人体建筑师——她想象出了许多将生物科学与科技融合进我们身体的方法。在这个极具视觉冲击力的演讲中，她展示了她的许多作品，从服装到对流行歌星罗宾在MV中的身体内部改造，再到一颗能让你吃下后就散发甜蜜香气的药片。
Lucy McRae - Body architect
Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, Lucy McRae is fascinated by the human body, and how it can be shaped by technology. Full bio
Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, Lucy McRae is fascinated by the human body, and how it can be shaped by technology. Full bio
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I call myself a body architect.
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我自称为一名人体建筑师。
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I trained in classical ballet
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我学过古典芭蕾
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and have a background in architecture and fashion.
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也有建筑以及时尚的相关背景
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As a body architect, I fascinate with the human body
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作为一个人体建筑师，我真的十分痴迷于人的身体
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and explore how I can transform it.
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以及我怎样才能改造它
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I worked at Philips Electronics
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我现在就职于飞利浦电子公司的
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in the far-future design research lab,
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一个超前设计研究实验室
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looking 20 years into the future.
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我们放眼于20年后的未来
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I explored the human skin, and how technology can transform the body.
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我探索过人的皮肤，以及怎样用科技改造身体
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I worked on concepts like an electronic tattoo,
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我也研究过只通过触摸就可以搞定的
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which is augmented by touch,
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电子纹身
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or dresses that blushed and shivered with light.
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还有可以用光装饰甚至打上碎花的裙子
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I started my own experiments.
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我还整了个实验
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These were the low-tech approaches to the high-tech conversations I was having.
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这是我用很没技术含量的玩意儿弄出的看着很有技术含量的设计
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These are Q-tips stuck to my roommate with wig glue.
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其实就是棉棒加上假发胶贴到我室友身上
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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I started a collaboration with a friend of mine, Bart Hess --
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我还跟我的朋友，巴特·赫斯，合作过
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he doesn't normally look like this --
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他平常不是这样的--
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and we used ourselves as models.
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我们把自己当作模特
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We transformed our apartments into our laboratories,
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我们把我们的公寓改造成了实验室
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and worked in a very spontaneous and immediate way.
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这样就能相当随意地随时实验我们的新想法
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We were creating
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我们现在正在创作
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visual imagery provoking human evolution.
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视觉图像来表现人类进化
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Whilst I was at Philips, we discussed this idea of a maybe technology,
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同时，在飞利浦，我们正在讨论一个关于模糊科技的点子
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something that wasn't either switched on or off, but in between.
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我是说一种并不是很绝对的形态
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A maybe that could take the form of a gas or a liquid.
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一种可以以气态或液态为形式的可能性。
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And I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body,
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然后我就对把身体的边界模糊化着了迷
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so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.
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在这种情况下，你无法知道皮肤与外界环境的具体分界线在哪里
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I set up my studio in the red-light district
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我还在红灯区建立了自己的工作室
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and obsessively wrapped myself in plumbing tubing,
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然后不可抑制地用管子缠满了自己的身体
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and found a way to redefine the skin
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然后我发现这可以重新定义肌肤
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and create this dynamic textile.
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并且也是一种动态的纺织品
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I was introduced to Robyn, the Swedish pop star,
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然后我被介绍给罗宾，一位瑞典的歌星
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and she was also exploring
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她也在探索着
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how technology coexists with raw human emotion.
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怎样使科技与我们的原始情感巧妙结合的方法。
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And she talked about how technology with these new feathers,
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然后她跟我说了怎样用科技造就这些新型“羽毛”
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this new face paint, this punk, the way that we identify with the world,
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这些面妆，这种朋克风，以及我们定义这个世界的方式
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and we made this music video.
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于是我们就做了这个MV
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I'm fascinated with the idea
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我非常着迷于这点子
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of what happens when you merge biology with technology,
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要是把科技和生物学融合在一起会发生什么
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and I remember reading about this idea of being able to reprogram
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我记得曾经读过一个点子，是关于在未来我们
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biology, in the future, away from disease and aging.
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可以通过改变生物内在编码来克服疾病与衰老
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And I thought about this concept of,
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我还想到了另一个点子
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imagine if we could reprogram
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想象一下如果我们可以重塑
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our own body odor, modify and biologically enhance it,
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身体的气味，修改它并且从生物性能上增强它
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and how would that change the way that we communicate with each other?
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这会怎样影响我们互相交流的方式呢？
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Or the way that we attract sexual partners?
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又会怎样影响我们寻找炮友的途径呢？
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And would we revert back to being more like animals,
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我们会退回到最初，像动物那样
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more primal modes of communication?
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用最原始的手段来交流吗？
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I worked with a synthetic biologist,
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我曾跟一个合成生物学家共事过
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and I created a swallowable perfume,
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我们创造出了一种可食用的香水
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which is a cosmetic pill that you eat
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其实就是个能吃的化妆药片
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and the fragrance comes out through the skin's surface when you perspire.
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然后当你出汗的时候香味就会从你的肌肤表面散发出来
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It completely blows apart the way that perfume is,
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这彻底颠覆了以前大家对香水的印象
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and provides a whole new format.
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并且提供了一种全新的方式
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It's perfume coming from the inside out.
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这种香水从内而外的散发出来
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It redefines the role of skin, and our bodies become an atomizer.
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它重新定义了肌肤的功能，并且我们的身体变成了一个香水喷瓶。
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I've learned that there's no boundaries,
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我现在知道了我的工作进展
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and if I look at the evolution of my work
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其实是有着广阔前景的
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i can see threads and connections that make sense.
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我的确可以看到有一些链接和节点贯穿着这个前景
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But when I look towards the future,
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不过当我展望未来时
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the next project is completely unknown and wide open.
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我的下一个作品又是完全未知而开放的
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I feel like I have all these ideas existing embedded inside of me,
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我觉得我身体内装满了不同的点子
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and it's these conversations and these experiences
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就是这些对话与经历让我本能似的
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that connect these ideas, and they kind of instinctively come out.
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把我的想法给组合起来
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As a body architect,
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作为一个人体建筑师
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I've created this limitless and boundless platform
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我已经为自己创造了一个无拘无束，没有限制的平台
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for me to discover whatever I want.
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让我可以去寻找我想要的
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And I feel like I've just got started.
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我现在感觉我才刚刚开始
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So here's to another day at the office.
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那么，新的一天里要开始工作啦！
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(Laughter) (Applause)
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（笑声）（掌声）
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Thank you!
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谢谢大家！
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Thank you!
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谢谢啊！
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lucy McRae - Body architectTrained as a classical ballerina and architect, Lucy McRae is fascinated by the human body, and how it can be shaped by technology.
Why you should listen
Lucy McRae is an artist who straddles the worlds of fashion, technology and the body. Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, her work – which is inherently fascinated with the human body – involves inventing and building structures on the skin that reshape the human silhouette. Her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful imagery suggests a new breed: a future human archetype existing in an alternate world. The media call her an inventor; friends call her a trailblazer. Either way, Lucy relies on instinct to evolve an extraordinary visual path that is powerful, primal and unique.
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