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| GFP Bunny, Eduardo Kac |
Notes from lecture
The manipulation of living
Bio-art represents a crossover art and biological sciences with genes, cells, animals and plants as new media, in bio-art, the intrinsic processes of life and genetic evolution are harnessed to create synthetic living entities and transgenic hybrids.
Alexander Flemming - painting with bacterial formations (1930s)
Recreation of life itself.
Subjects that we can look into when research bio-art movements:
- Histories of plant, animal and human representation
- Imagery of DNA, cells, chromosomes and proteins
- Art about disease
- Art about extinction
- Art and genetics
- Art and biotechnology
- Ecofeminist art
- Artifical life and emergent behaviors
- Land art, ecological art and other kinds of expression in which living things are integral
An artefact may be defined as a material object which is embodiment of human intention; a physical entity that does not exist in the absence of human manipulation and intervention, deliberately created by humans...
Villem Flusser, Essay "Curie's Children", Artforum journal (1988)
To not replicate what scientists are already doing, but to build onto it.
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