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
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