BIO ART EXHIBITION: CUT/PASTE/GROW
Science at Play: Bioart in Brooklyn
March 23–May 11, 2013
Opening reception: Saturday, March 23, 8 PM
Gallery hours: Saturdays & Sundays 12–6 PM
Life is restless. Bioartists—the emerging group of practitioners who manipulate living tissues, DNA, and bacteria—must embrace this restlessness. Working in the lab, the artist can’t contain his medium. Even in the Petri dish, fungal spores invade the colonies, or the slime mold overruns maze. Precision gives way to open-ended experiment. The lab is a garden, and the bioartist is the gardener for the new millennium, where breeding advances naturally into gene splicing.
CUT/PASTE/GROW provides a space to ask fundamental new questions about aesthetics and our assumptions about life and death. What, for example, makes a beautiful blueprint for a beautiful form—what makes a beautiful gene?
By cutting and pasting DNA into a being, the organism itself—both in function and behavior—becomes a chimera, a hybrid natural/engineered being stitched from disparate parts, a result of both Darwinian evolution and the will of the artist.
Since antiquity, hybrids were considered abominations. Today, we can view them in any number of ways: Are these chimerae quasi-artworks or quasi-organisms? Is bioart a new approach to society and ecology, a partnership with the microbial life all around us?
Watch Video: http://vimeo.com/63780796
Find out more at cutpastegrow.com
And at http://observatoryroom.org/2013/02/24/cutpastegrow-show-opening/
Science at Play: Bioart in Brooklyn
March 23–May 11, 2013
Opening reception: Saturday, March 23, 8 PM
Gallery hours: Saturdays & Sundays 12–6 PM
Life is restless. Bioartists—the emerging group of practitioners who manipulate living tissues, DNA, and bacteria—must embrace this restlessness. Working in the lab, the artist can’t contain his medium. Even in the Petri dish, fungal spores invade the colonies, or the slime mold overruns maze. Precision gives way to open-ended experiment. The lab is a garden, and the bioartist is the gardener for the new millennium, where breeding advances naturally into gene splicing.
CUT/PASTE/GROW provides a space to ask fundamental new questions about aesthetics and our assumptions about life and death. What, for example, makes a beautiful blueprint for a beautiful form—what makes a beautiful gene?
By cutting and pasting DNA into a being, the organism itself—both in function and behavior—becomes a chimera, a hybrid natural/engineered being stitched from disparate parts, a result of both Darwinian evolution and the will of the artist.
Since antiquity, hybrids were considered abominations. Today, we can view them in any number of ways: Are these chimerae quasi-artworks or quasi-organisms? Is bioart a new approach to society and ecology, a partnership with the microbial life all around us?
Watch Video: http://vimeo.com/63780796
Find out more at cutpastegrow.com
And at http://observatoryroom.org/2013/02/24/cutpastegrow-show-opening/
ORGANIC MATTERS
Opening Reception: July 27th 1-6pm
July 27th - August 18th
Exhibiting Artists
Jill Hotchkiss
Corinne Schulze
Nikki Romanello
Curated by Megan Suttles
Saturdays & Sundays 1-6 pm and by Appointment
481 Van Brunt Street Unit 9B
Brooklyn, NY 11231
www.hotwoodarts.com
Kombucha Cellulose Paper
Yeast and Bacteria Symbiotic Cultures
Inoculated July 18, 2013
475ml - 1892ml
Opening Reception: July 27th 1-6pm
July 27th - August 18th
Exhibiting Artists
Jill Hotchkiss
Corinne Schulze
Nikki Romanello
Curated by Megan Suttles
Saturdays & Sundays 1-6 pm and by Appointment
481 Van Brunt Street Unit 9B
Brooklyn, NY 11231
www.hotwoodarts.com
Kombucha Cellulose Paper
Yeast and Bacteria Symbiotic Cultures
Inoculated July 18, 2013
475ml - 1892ml
