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Evolution Haute Couture. Art and Science in the Post-biological Age
The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad branch, Russia) and the “MediaArtLab” Center for Art and Culture (Moscow) presents in the framework of the IX MediaForum 2008 the collection of the videodocumentaries of the art projects which use high technologies of the XXI century as a medium of implementation – artificial life, robotics, bio- and genetic engineering and nanotechnology.
Art that is created under the such
new conditions of postbiology - under the conditions of an artificially
fashioned lifespan - cannot help but take this artificiality as its explicit
theme. However, time, duration, and life cannot be shown directly but only as
documentation. The dominant genre of postbiological art is thus technological
documentation: ideas, drafts, and video documentaries for realized projects. It
is precisely at this point where documentation becomes indispensable, and
produces the life of the living thing: the documentation inscribes the
existence of an object in history, and gives the object a lifespan which this
existence (independent of whether this object was 'originally' living or
artificial).
The National Centre for Contemporary
Arts (Kaliningrad branch, Russia) and the "MediaArtLab" Center for
Art and Culture (Moscow) presents in the framework of the IX Media Forum 2008
the collection of the video documentaries of the art projects which use high
technologies of the XXI century as a medium of implementation - artificial
life, robotics, bio- and genetic engineering and nanotechnology.
The project is divided into several
parts:
- Artificial but Actual (Artificial Life);
- Limits of Modeling (Evolutionary Design);
- Shining Prostheses
(Robotechnics);
- Body as Technology (Technobody
modification, WearComp, Biomechatronics);
- More than a Copy, Less than Nothingness
(Bio- and Genetic Engineering);
- Semi-Living (Tissue
Engineering);
- Post-Sodom and Post-Gomorrah
(Nanoengineering).
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