“Myth, laboratory, and clinic are intimately interwoven…” Donna Haraway.
Nurse preparing a Polio Vaccine in Ethiopia (image taken from http://www.who.int/en/)
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
written by Britt Wray
Bioreactor (image taken from www.stelarc.va.com.au)
Eduardo Kac, Featherless, 2006, painted resin, (9.8 x 2.3 x 1.5 in / 25 x 6 x 4 cm), edition of 5.
post by Vanessa Rigaux
Both artist and scientist are under stresses from institutional pressures and contributing alienation factors, as outlined by Claire Pentecost in “Outfitting the Laboratory of the Symbolic Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart”. Can collaboration serve to extend intelligence and a holistic approach to the area of bioart? Scientist, artist and media must all confront the globalized market to question not only how our perspective has changed (and will continue to change as technologies develop and integrate into our lives) but especially the transparency we still see as a privacy issue. The more we keep new technologies and methodologies in containers based on success stories of the individual the more we ought to be fearful of. Controversy, as brought up by the artist working in a bioart field, is an imperative that will allow for dialogue, debate and, eventually, comprehension. As in any collaborative method, working together means the media and science areas must also pick up where the artist trails off.
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