MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anthropocentrism, Bioart
1 May 2016
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Bio-art: the ethics behind the aesthetics by frances stracey. Stracey considers bio-artists as thoughtful, crucial inventionists in biotechnologies whom help introduce these practice to the public more generally. Art: sits below life on implied hierarchy in this article; the ethical implications of reducing life to art . Bio-art: use of living matter as medium for art, usually in conjunction with the biological science. Aesthetic: here used, pertaining to the beautiful & lacking other considerations such as ethical, social, or cultural. Heather dewey-hagborg notices small pieces of litter, forgotten artifacts:, ex. cigarette butt, chewing gum, etc. Extracts dna from these samples of trash& turns that information from code into life-sized 3d facial portraits resembling the person who left the sample behind.
