bioart

Genes, Collaborations, and Permissions with Adam Zaretsky

In this Biocoillider episode, Adam Zaretsky talks with Matej Vakula about multi-species collaborations in bioart. What does it mean to ask for permission, and how do we ask non-humans? Can language or training influence gene expression? What ideas truly underpin the aesthetics of transhuman enhancement? What does the hype around certain scientific discoveries–such as CRISPR–serve? […]

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Bacteria as an Art Medium, meeting with Anna Dumitriu

Recorded on 2016-11-30

Anna Dumitriu talks about her creation with bacteria and contemporary biomedicine and bioresearch, explaining how she combines high end bioresearch with craft techniques in her work. She presents and discusses her approach to art and to art and science collaborations and detail her specific project in relation to the FEAT residency. Recorded by Annick Bureaud […]

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Strange Attractor: A Ballroom Marfa Exhibition Pt. 2

Recorded on 2016-11-30

A continued conversation between Gryphon Rue on the experience of abstract things and everyday life. Gryphon Rue’s curated installations focus around sensory perception and sound. They speak briefly about Alexander Calder, an American artist who came from the arts and crafts movement and invented the ‘mobile’, a type of kinetic sculpture. Gryphon Rue includes a […]

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Bacteria as an Art Medium, meeting with Anna Dumitriu

Recorded on 2016-11-30

Anna Dumitriu talks about her creation with bacteria and contemporary biomedicine and bioresearch, explaining how she combines high end bioresearch with craft techniques in her work. She presents and discusses her approach to art and to art and science collaborations and detail her specific project in relation to the FEAT residency. Recorded by Annick Bureaud […]

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Strange Attractor: A Ballroom Marfa Exhibition Pt. 1

Recorded on 2016-10-09

Gryphon Rue, curator for the exhibition Strange Attractor, speaks with Roger Malina about some of the artworks that will be featured in Ballroom Marfa. One work, by Phillipa Horan, uses mycelium (of which mushrooms are the fruiting body) grown to fit a sculptural mold. Gryphon also talks about Haroon Mirza’s monumental Stone Circle sound work […]

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Heirloom and The Body Collected, as seen by the curators, meeting with Louise Whiteley and Malthe Bjerregaard

Recorded on 2016-09-19

Louise Whiteley and Malthe Bjerregaard present the exhibition The Body Collected and the artwork by Gina Czarnecki & John Hunt Heirloom a living portrait of the artists’s daughters based on the own cells, within the framework of the Medical Museion [http://www.museion.ku.dk/] in Copenhagen scope and aims. They discuss the specific and ethical issues raised by […]

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Heirloom and The Body Collected, as seen by the curators, meeting with Louise Whiteley and Malthe Bjerregaard

Recorded on 2016-09-19

Louise Whiteley and Malthe Bjerregaard present the exhibition The Body Collected and the artwork by Gina Czarnecki & John Hunt Heirloom a living portrait of the artists’s daughters based on the own cells, within the framework of the Medical Museion [http://www.museion.ku.dk/] in Copenhagen scope and aims. They discuss the specific and ethical issues raised by […]

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Heirloom, as seen by the artist and scientist, meeting with Gina Czarnecki and John Hunt

Recorded on 2016-08-29

Louise Whiteley and Malthe Bjerregaard present the exhibition The Body Collected and the artwork by Gina Czarnecki & John Hunt Heirloom a living portrait of the artists’s daughters based on the own cells, within the framework of the Medical Museion [http://www.museion.ku.dk/] in Copenhagen scope and aims. They discuss the specific and ethical issues raised by […]

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