MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture 4: WEEK 4- 1A03
7 Nov 2018
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Week 4: intersections of arts & science: bio art. I"ve got a secret, i"ve been hiding under my skin song: mr. roboto. My heart is human, my blood is boiling artist: styx. My brain ibm album: kilory wad here (1983) So if you see me acting strangely, don"t be surprised. Dna portraits (e. g. mark quinn, a genomic portrait: sir john sulston (2001) Life sculpting (e. g. manipulating butterflies and frog embryos) Transgenic collages ( e. g. eduardo kac, gfp bunny (2000), kathy high, embracing. Stelarc: an australian performance and bio-artist, the suspensions are experiments in bodily sensation, expressed in different spaces and in diverse situations. They are not actions for interpretation, nor require any explanation. They are not meant to generate any meaning. Rather they are sites of indifference and states of erasure. The body is empty, absent to its own agency and obsolete. Transhumanist and part of extropian movements: how a human may look in the future.
