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BioArt – Intro and projects
BioArt ‘is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms, and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning) the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries, or artists’ studios‘ (wiki 2012). There are a number of artists working in this way Symbiotica, Orlan, Stelarc, Critical Art Ensemble amongst others. Wikipedia’s…
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The Ethics and Politics of BioArt
1. Wired magazine article ‘The Ethics and Aesthetics of Using Living Tissue as a medium’ 2. Steve Kurtz is a professor of Art at SUNY Buffalo and founding member of Critical Art Ensemble who was finally cleared in 2008 after a 4 year legal battle after his home was raided and documents, computers and scientific equipment used in…
