The network as a model of both cultural creation and organization retains a growing influence outside the Web, as is evident in Sandra Seekins’s research into biotech art. In her TCR 2-50 article Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art she asks:
What are the cultural, political, and aesthetic roles of artists working with advanced technologies, such as bioengineering? Genetic research provides artists with significant new tools, and the impact of technologies on contemporary existence is an urgent issue, perhaps one of the most vital of our era, since it deeply impacts normative notions of human identity and corporeal integrity. How and in what ways it challenges these notions depends on where one positions oneself along the bioethics, biopolitics, and biopower continuum.
Sandra Seekins
SANDRA SEEKINS has been with Capilano College since September 2001. She teaches Art History and Women’s Studies, and is currently the Studio Art Coordinator. She has an M.A. from U.B.C. and is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include art and technology, art and activism, and art and multiculturalism. When she’s not working, Sandra skulks through flea markets and garage sales looking for vintage ray guns, space toys, and robot art.
READ: Sandra Seekins / Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art
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