This website has definitely inspired me to do something biology related for my Time art project, even if they are specifically screen related.
Skin Texture
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| In the Wrong Placeness - Kira O'Reilly (2009) |
Ive seen a lot of artists playing with the patterns, colours and textures of bacteria grown on a petri dish to create interesting photographed art pieces, however after a session with an artist that mainly uses her body with art, I found that different textures can be found on our own bodies. This includes the surface of the body, hand and foot prints to create patterns and art pieces.
The photo above is by Kira O'Reilly, who used her self and a pig to compare the texture and shape of both backs. This is quite an unusual piece, especially because the shape and texture is so similar, and how it represents our complex relationship with animals.
"Realising the similarities between the
pig's skin and her own, Kira danced skin to skin with a dead pig and invited
members of the audience to touch both her own and the skin of the nonhuman
animal"
In this piece the artist became the subject and put on a performance, using science. With an audience watching and a horse standing in the background, she was injected with blood from a horse. After this she then stood next to the horse in hoof stilts. This shows how your art piece could essentially be an experiment for yourself, as well as educational for the audience, and trying to get across a message.
"Horse immunoglobulins by-passed the defensive
mechanisms of her own human immune system, entered her blood stream to bond
with the proteins of her own body and, as a result of this synthesis, have an
effect on all major body functions, impacting even the nervous system, so that the artist, during and in the weeks
after the performance, experienced not only alterations in her physiological
rhythm but also of her consciousness. "I had the feeling of being
extra-human," explained the
artist. "I was not in my usual body. I was hyper-powerful,
hyper-sensitive, hyper-nervous and very diffident. The emotionalism of an
herbivore. I could not sleep. I probably felt a bit like a horse.' "
Biology sculpture (Like time has stopped)
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| Anne Brondie 'Bee Box' (2011) |
I really like this sculpture as in its natural habitat and alive you would not be able to see bees this close. It also makes it appear like time has stopped while they are still flying. Even though this also isn't related to the screen, it shows how artists create art to show the audience detail and the little things we may not usually look for. I want to create my piece similar to this in a sense, making the little details and things we don't really think about into an artist science experiment on screen.
