GMU:BioArt WS15/(non)living and the lemon battery

From Medien Wiki

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

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”)

Historical context

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