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Prof Lori Andrews |
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The Aesthetics of Cruelty vs. the Aesthetics of Empathy |
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“As we understand more the import and effects of our physical composition we move from a time of corrective nurturing (religion, psychoanalysis, therapy) to corrective “naturing” (pharmaceuticals, EST, genetic modificaitons) …. Our relationship to ourselves dictates our relationships toward other creatures and our ecology, more generally. Our ethics with human culture do not easily translate to the needs and values of all biological forms”
Thornton, in her art practice, critiques concepts of anthropology, community and observational science using house flies; investigates the seven deadly sins within the modern pharmaceutical industry and witnesses the resurrection of a chicken. |
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A complicated balancing act? How can we assess the use of animals in art and science? |
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The ethics of animal use in scientific experimentation has been, and continues, to be widely debated. Absolutist positions forbidding all such research as immoral or specist, hinges on the relative balance of harm versus good. Stuart Bunt from the School of Anatomy and Human Biology UWA, will discuss the inherent difficulties of using such an approach, and the particular ethical and scientific challenges presented when such rules are applied to the use of living material in art works. |
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Cute Robots/Ugly Human Parts (A post-human aesthetics of care) |
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The role of art in relation to bio-politics; increasing solidarity and empathy among species; a Dada of the human genome; art that develops and aesthetic of care and recognition for non-human elements and intelligence. What to do in the era of biotech?! |
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Breeding for Wildness |
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George Gessert (presented by Adam Zaretsky) |
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By bringing art to evolution, and to ornamental plants in particular (which constitutes a major expression of genetic folk art) we may deepen awareness of the social, psychological, and ethical issues involved in directing evolution. . Gessert is an artist, scholar and is a member of the editorial board of Leonardo MIT Publication. In this paper he discusses his work over the last twenty years breeding plants that recall their wild ancestors rather than the overbred and kitsch of the commercial breeders. |
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Recombinant Aesthetics (adventures in paradise) |
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New media-art reveals the dissolution of immutable self-contained organic entities. It presents all entities as genomic sites, permeable mediums of ‘genetic’ exchange susceptible to continuous engineered transmutation. Brodyk discusses art based coding mechanisms modelled on interpretations of genetic engineering processes used in biotechnology applications to new media art. |
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Clancy explores the scientific processes used in the field of genetic engineering with the ethical implications of imaging her own chromosomes and the development of artificial chromosomes as a gene delivery method. Clancy is a member of body manufacture a multi-disciplinary group of artists exploring and critiquing the field of genetic engineering. |
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Performance “The Dissecting Eye” |
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Every eye has its blind spot.
Through the ages, incomplete visions have prompted mystics, philosophers and scientists to probe through the viscous liquid. What has been revealed are truths and lies about the super/natural world. The power of the eye and gaze, still not fully understood, continues to be a source of inspiration and fear. The live performance explores the physical structure and cultural symbolism of the mysterious eye.
Bay Area Artist, Julia Reodica, is also a Life Sciences Intern and Exhibit Facilitator at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, California. |
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The Ethics of Looking |
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Redmond Bridgeman |
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For John Berger, the mutually regarding look between humans and other animals has been largely extinguished; replaced by a gaze that see animals as raw material: a focus for human sentimentality, a resource, or objects of human knowledge. Addressing the work of a number of artists, this paper will explore the considerations appropriate to the development of an ethics of looking_, one that escapes the isolating gaze Berger describes. It will be argued such an aesthetic would involve an interplay between visualisation technologies, with their capacity to expand and organize our experience of the world, and visual art’s speculative role on the limits and nature of visual experience. |
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The Laboratory as an Art Studio |
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Marta De Menezes |
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Menezes discusses her artistic practice in the lab – using DNA labelled with flurochromes to paint the nuclei of human cells, imaging techniques that allow the visualisation of brain activity and creating live butterflies with wing patterns, never seen before in nature. |
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Meart – The semi living artist (Aka Fish & Chips) |
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Guy Ben-Ary/Thomas DeMarse |
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Meart (AkA Fish & Chips) is an on going research & development project conducted in SymbioticA. Meart is a bio-cybernetic project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of biological technologies. It is assembled from neurons (from embryonic rat cortex) – “wetware”, grown over multi electrode array, software and visual art output device (robotic arm) – hardware. In this talk, Guy Ben-Ary presents the current state of research in the development of a “semi-living artistic entity”. |
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An emergence of the Semi-Living |
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Modern biology enables us to objectify living systems and to create Semi-Living beings. As wet biology art practitioners Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts are acutely aware that the Semi-Living beings they create are dependant on their care for survival and well-being. In this presentation Zurr explores the extent to which the TC&NA (Tissue Culture and Art) project can morally manipulate and exploit living and biological systems for human-centric activities. Will the emergece of the Semi-Livings make our society a more caring one or will life become objectified even further? |
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The Fine Art of Creating Life |
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Youngs uses electronics, kinetics, sound, insects, plants and pixels to create art about the complex relationship between technology and our changing concepts of nature and self. Her work engages viewers in a visual, tactile and auditory realm, to elicit a dialogue regarding the relationship between technology and our changing concept of nature and self. That technology can simultaneously ruin, reveal, reinvent and repair nature is a paradox Young investigates in this presentation. |
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The obscured ideologies of Artificial Life: An analysis of the construction and representation of nature through the work of Mark Latham. |
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The politics of the “idea” of nature and its social construction are ideas manifest in Mark Lathams’ art. The digital machine is perceived as a moral free zone, yet is always historically and culturally mediated through scientific discourses and Western attitudes towards nature. Taylor explores the ethical debates of biology virtually created. |
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