[spectre] Bio Art: Life in the Anthropocene

[Melentie Pandilovski]

Bio Art: Life in the Anthropocene
Editor: Stephanie Britton Consultant editor: Melentie Pandilovski
Bio-art inhabits a realm within the art/science/medicine/ technology
matrix and this international issue examines a world where human
beings are evolving in response to the rapid progress of biotechnology
in medicine, genetics, and science. The work of a biotech artist might
include extensions to the body; the relationship of living to
non-living; bio-couture (living 'textiles') the future of cyborgian
systems; man-machine interactions and a great deal more. Viruses and
bacteria are one of the new frontiers in the understanding of life on
earth, and have started to appear as the raw materials of art in
various contexts. The changing definitions of the moment of
irreversible death and the definition of life itself have major
implications for philosophers, ethicists and artists alike. Artists
profiled in this issue include Helen Pynor, Anna Dumitriu, Pinar
Yoldas, Donna Franklin, SymbioticA Tissue Culture & Art, Paul Thomas,
Tagny Duff, Sissel Tolaas, Stelarc, Eduardo Kac and many more.
Artlink is one of the few international art magazines to address the topic of
bio art, providing information on the extraordinary ferment of
activity in the work of artists working in the field of scientific and
medical research as residents and provocateurs. This issue has been
produced with the assistance of international expert on Bio-technology
and art, Dr Melentie Pandilovski, Director of Video Pool Media Arts
Centre, Winnipeg.
http://www.artlink.com.au/issues/3430/bio-art-life-in-the-anthropocene/

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