MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Stelarc, Fitbit, Eduardo Kac
16 Oct 2017
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A crossover of art and the biological sciences, with living matter such as genes. This (left) was the rst piece of art created. Someone took their abstract thought and created a piece. A being both of organic and mechanical parts. Technology such as the fitbit or pacemakers, are on us and attached/ involved with our biological data. Bioethics= controversy around clinical, medical or other practical applications if new biotechnologies. Francis stacy article focuses on portraits made from dna. Bio-ethics= controversies surrounding the clinical, medical or other practical applications of new biotechnologies, such as genetic engineering. Alexander fleming (creator of penicillin) made germ paintings (1933). Bio-art is either seen as artful forms of eugenics or the artists are seen as pawns for the bio- tech industries. Dna portraits - mark quinn made a portrait of sir john sulston using jelly with his bacterial dna. This calls to our representations of human and the ability to represent ourselves.
