20.109(F08): The grafting parlour

20.109(F08): Laboratory Fundamentals of Biological Engineering

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NOTES FROM 11.11 meeting with the artist from THE GRAFTING PARLOUR

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Form brings questions about content
Computational approaches represent nature but biology holds in itself the reality of nature
Art can tilt and sway perspective
Interactive technology (video, telecommunication) are time base media

How to look at the world through nature’s point of view?
How can artwork change itself during a show?
How can artwork change as it travels from gallery to gallery?
We value the history of an object but can an object have traces/memories of itself and its history?
Is the human desire to “fix time” immutable?
We think of our cells as making up us but they have a life of their own as well (circadian pulsing of neurons every 23.5 hours w/o stimulus). What is the biological memory that cells have of a day? What do cells have to say to us?
Galleries usually carefully manage light/moisture/temperature to inhibit bacteria growth on art but is this just a romantic notion of art by masters and is the intervention needed? Can unpredictable evolution/passage/change of art be part of art?

Hyunkoo Lee: animatus= skeletons from animated characters. Notable for its performance of science, that the artist makes apparent. Some eerie some playful examples.

Kac: Transgenetic Alba bunny: use of animals as art? Research was done for science then made accessible through art