Abstract

This study examines posthuman aesthetics in contemporary visual art and performance, focusing on how 
emerging artistic practices decentre the human and redistribute agency across human, nonhuman, technological, 
and environmental actors. It argues that posthuman aesthetics is not merely a thematic shift but a reconfiguration 
of ontology, perception, and artistic production shaped by technoscience, algorithmic systems, and material 
ecologies. Through engagement with installation art, generative and algorithmic practices, biotechnological 
performance, and immersive environments, the study demonstrates how contemporary works challenge 
anthropocentric models of authorship, spectatorship, and aesthetic experience. Drawing on posthumanist theory, 
new materialism, and actor-network approaches, it highlights how agency becomes distributed within assemblages 
of bodies, objects, and systems. The study further explores the ethical, political, and ecological implications of such 
practices, particularly in relation to labour, care, and responsibility in algorithmically mediated cultures. 
Ultimately, it proposes that posthuman aesthetics redefines art as a relational field of co-composition between 
heterogeneous actants, where perception, participation, and meaning are continuously negotiated.