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Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?
Lucy McRae: 科技如何改造人體？
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在TED Fellow大會上，Lucy McRae是一位人體建築師--她想像出了許多將生物科學和科技結合到人體的方法。在這個極具視覺衝擊的演講中，她展示了許多作品，從服裝到對流行歌星Robyn的音樂影片中體內改造，再到一顆能讓你吃下後就散發甜蜜香氣的藥片。
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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我自稱自己是一位人體建築師
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I trained in classical ballet
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我學過古典芭蕾
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and have a background in architecture and fashion.
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也有建築和時尚的相關背景
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As a body architect, I fascinate with the human body
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身為一位人體建築師，我對人體深度著迷
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and explore how I can transform it.
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以及該如何改造人體
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I worked at Philips Electronics
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我現在任職於飛利浦電子公司
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in the far-future design research lab,
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旗下一個前衛設計的研究實驗室
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looking 20 years into the future.
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我們著眼於二十年後的未來
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I explored the human skin, and how technology can transform the body.
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我探索過人類皮膚，以及如何運用科技改造人體
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I worked on concepts like an electronic tattoo,
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我也研究過透過觸摸就能完成
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which is augmented by touch,
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電子紋身
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or dresses that blushed and shivered with light.
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還有可以用光照射或照映出圖樣的裙子
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I started my own experiments.
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我還做了實驗
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These were the low-tech approaches to the high-tech conversations I was having.
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這是我沒有用太多技術所做出來的科技設計
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These are Q-tips stuck to my roommate with wig glue.
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其實就是用棉棒加上假髮膠貼在我室友的身上
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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I started a collaboration with a friend of mine, Bart Hess --
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我還和我的朋友Bart Hess合作過
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he doesn't normally look like this --
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他平常不是這樣的--
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and we used ourselves as models.
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我們把自己當作模特兒
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We transformed our apartments into our laboratories,
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我們將公寓改造成實驗室
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and worked in a very spontaneous and immediate way.
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這樣就能隨時隨地實驗我們的新想法
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We were creating
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我們現在正在創作
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visual imagery provoking human evolution.
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用視覺圖像來表現人類的演化
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Whilst I was at Philips, we discussed this idea of a maybe technology,
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同時，在飛利浦，我們正在討論一個想法，可能是科技
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something that wasn't either switched on or off, but in between.
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我是說一種非具體型態的概念
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A maybe that could take the form of a gas or a liquid.
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可能是氣體或液體作為形式的概念
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And I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body,
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然後我對於將身體邊緣模糊化感到非常有興趣
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so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.
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在此種情況下，你就不能知道皮膚和外界環境的具體界線在哪
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I set up my studio in the red-light district
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我還在紅燈區成立了自己的工作室
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and obsessively wrapped myself in plumbing tubing,
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然後著魔似的用管子纏滿了自己的身體
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and found a way to redefine the skin
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我發現這樣可以重新界定皮膚
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and create this dynamic textile.
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而且這也是一種動態的紡織品
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I was introduced to Robyn, the Swedish pop star,
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我想給各位介紹Robyn，她是位瑞典流行歌手
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and she was also exploring
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她也在探索著
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how technology coexists with raw human emotion.
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如何用科技和我們原始情感巧妙結合的方法
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And she talked about how technology with these new feathers,
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然後她跟我說如何用科技創造這些新型態的 "羽毛"
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this new face paint, this punk, the way that we identify with the world,
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這樣的妝容，龐克風，還有我們定義這個世界的方式
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and we made this music video.
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後來我們完成了這部音樂影片
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I'm fascinated with the idea
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我非常喜歡這個想法
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of what happens when you merge biology with technology,
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就是將科技和生物學結合在一起會產生什麼
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and I remember reading about this idea of being able to reprogram
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我記得以前看過一個想法，是有關我們在未來
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biology, in the future, away from disease and aging.
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可以透過改變生物基因來抵抗疾病和老化
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And I thought about this concept of,
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我還想到了另一個點子
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imagine if we could reprogram
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想像一下，如果我們可以
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our own body odor, modify and biologically enhance it,
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重新改變體味，改變而且增強其生物性能
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and how would that change the way that we communicate with each other?
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這會如何影響我們相互交流的方式呢？
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Or the way that we attract sexual partners?
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又會如何影響我們尋找另一半的方法呢？
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And would we revert back to being more like animals,
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我們會不會又退回到最初像是動物那樣
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more primal modes of communication?
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用最原始的方式來交流？
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I worked with a synthetic biologist,
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我曾和一位合成生物學家共事過
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and I created a swallowable perfume,
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我們創造出了一種可食用的香水
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which is a cosmetic pill that you eat
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其實就是種可食用的化妝藥片
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and the fragrance comes out through the skin's surface when you perspire.
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服用後，在流汗的時候，香味就會從皮膚表面散發出來
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It completely blows apart the way that perfume is,
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這徹底顛覆了過去大家對香水的印象
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and provides a whole new format.
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並且提供一種全新的方式
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It's perfume coming from the inside out.
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這種香水從內而外的散發出來
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It redefines the role of skin, and our bodies become an atomizer.
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也重新定義了我們皮膚的功能，人體變成一只香水瓶
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I've learned that there's no boundaries,
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我現在知道了我的工作是無限的
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and if I look at the evolution of my work
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我如果回顧我的工作經歷
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i can see threads and connections that make sense.
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我可以看出來這當中的每個關聯性
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But when I look towards the future,
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不過當我展望未來時
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the next project is completely unknown and wide open.
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我的下一個作品又是完全未知而開放的
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I feel like I have all these ideas existing embedded inside of me,
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我覺得我充滿了不同的想法
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and it's these conversations and these experiences
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就是這些對話與經歷
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that connect these ideas, and they kind of instinctively come out.
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讓我本能地將我的想法給組合起來
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As a body architect,
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身為一位人體建築師
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I've created this limitless and boundless platform
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我為自己創造了一個無拘無束，無所限制的平台
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for me to discover whatever I want.
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讓我可以去尋找我想要的
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And I feel like I've just got started.
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我現在感覺一切才剛開始
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So here's to another day at the office.
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新的一天裡也要開始工作
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(Laughter) (Applause)
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(笑聲)(掌聲)
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Thank you!
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謝謝各位
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Thank you!
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謝謝
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.
Lucy McRae | Speaker | TED.com