TCS 152:New Trends in Art and Technology
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Course Forum: Arthropods and Mammals
Week 8: Genomes
Cyborgs, cyberfeminism, transgenics
Cyberfeminism:
redefining
gender, redefining relationship to essential boundaries introducing new
possibilities of collectivity and collaboration
Cyborg: MIT
definition:
Cybernetic organism is anything that crosses the
boundaries between cybernetics and the organic.
Transgenicorganisms:
Organisms that have foreign DNA inserted into
their genome
Donna Harawayıs 1996 book
Modestwitness@second_millenium.FemaleManMeetsOncoMouse
Oncomouse
developed at Harvard with funding from DuPont. It was been engineered to
get breast cancer, for use as a live research tool. OncoMouse was
patented in the U.S. in 1988 in a precedent-setting action which raises
questions about the ethical and economic conseuqences of patenting life
forms.
For a timeline of genome inspired art see Genomic Art
Artists from class slide show
Nick Lampert
Michael Oatman
Patricia Piccinini
Natalie Jeremijenko
Motohiko Odani
INIGO
MANGLALO OVALLE
Brandon
Ballangee (Malformed Amphibian Project)
Critical
Art Ensemble in Green Museum
SubRosa and Faith Wilding
Paul Vanouse
Tera Galanti
Symbiotica, Oron Catts, Tissue and Culture Project
Larry Miller, above and right: Genomic License #5 (Alison Knowles
Properties)1992-97 Blood, skin, hair, fingernail samples, photographs, Genetic Code Copyright and Sale of Genetic Code Copyright certificate documents,Genomic License Agreement form,texts |
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 Eduardo Kac |
 Michael Oatman |
 Nick Lampert |
 Patricia
Piccinini |
 Motohiko
Odani |
 INIGO MANGLALO OVALLE a less obvious
reference is to Spanish casta paintings of the late seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Casta paintings were commissioned by Spanish
colonial officials in the New World to illustrate the intermingling of
races to show and name the various lines of racial mixing between
Spaniards, indigenous peoples, and Africans. Each casta comprises
sixteen scenes; the same number of people Manglano-Ovalle selected for
his project. |
 Tera
Galanti If I lived in a
so-called third world country or even in a similar condition in my own
country, I would not have the privilege of addressing any issues outside
of my own and my family's survival. However, being in a position of
safety from external threats, one assumes responsibility to consider
issues beyond basic survival needs. Anyone reading these words is most
likely in a relatively safe position. I'd like to address the reader
with the question: What is your relationship with your environment? What
choices do you make? I believe it is a misconception to think that what
is "out there" is not connected to oneself. |
 symbiotica and
oron catts |