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== Literature overview ==
== Literature overview ==
https://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:BioArt#Books


== Historical context ==
== Historical context ==

Revision as of 17:53, 8 December 2015

potato batery

living-non living and the posthuman state

Historical context of electricity

Electricity generated by interaction between organic and non organic elements

Bioart: what is at stake / post-digital and post-media cultures

  • Deleuzian Rhizome
  • strata
  • mapping

Literature overview

https://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/wiki/GMU:BioArt#Books

Historical context

Robert Mitchell (2010). Board and the Vitality of Media. (the concept of “media life”, link between objective and subjective as a change in technology and social relations; bioart introduced as “problematic”, a deleuzian rhizome connecting bodies, institutions and ideas; “post-medium condition”)

Three Eras:

  • Sciences of Heredity / Plant breeding and vis-a-vis market: Edward Steichen, Delphiniums 1936
  • dna (braking in 70s first) and the innovations of life: Joe Davis, Microvenus 1986 (coding) and Eduardo Kac, Genesis 1999 (translation and communication)
  • bioart and bioterrorism: Steve Kurtz, FBI and mail fraud case in 2004-2008

Projects

  • Marta de Menezes. Nature? (1998) (genetically modified butterflies with different wings)
  • Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr. Disembodied Cousine (2001-2) (tissue culture/steak from from muscle cells around a biopolymer template)
  • Steve Kurtz
  • davidcremers. Gastrulation (1998)
  • Natalie Jeremijenko. One Tree (1998-present)
  • Eduardo Kac
  • Critical art ensemble. Free Range Grains