Feb

14

Genetic Portraits

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“… it’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified …” William Gibson, Johnny Mneumonic
Other artists have begun to alter (even interrogate) notions of portraiture and self-portraiture by constructing identity in relation to, and often critical of, […]

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Feb

13

Co-opting the Lab

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One group that has been involved for several years with biotech issues is the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). Founded in 1987 in Tallahassee, Florida by Steve Barnes and Steve Kurtz, CAE is a collective whose members have recently staged their responses to the paucity of public debate on the biotech industry. [For more on CAE, […]

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Feb

12

Metaphors of Biotechnology

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In her essay, Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art, Sandra Seekins writes: “Biotechnologies reveal that bodies are composites of replaceable parts, open to reorganization, surveillance, and psychological and physical modification or augmentation. This can be an unsettling proposition, but one that is faced by artists concerned with the metaphors and […]

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