[-empyre-] Redistributing the material world¹s diverse accents
--empyre- soft-skinned space--This is a response to Chris Robbins: I am answering a request for more definitive notion of art goals.¹ Beyond what I had said about bioart offering a reading of science and art in the difficult land of luxurious, useless, process based, conceptual, secular catechism. This former listing of art goals¹ is naïve modernism described. I think we are still there in the arts and the sciences, perpetuating the myth of the Avant Garde or as Laibach and NSK calls it: the Retro Garde. http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/archive/258-synthesis-retro-avant-garde- or-mapping-post-socialism-in-ex-yugoslavia- http://www.reanimator.8m.com/NSK/zizek.html Is the goal Tactical bioMedia? The showcasing or making public of techniques for scientific control over organismic development has a tactical design. This is a more popular way of explaining why we do public labs. To bring a hands-on experience to the untrained crowd-sources demystification and takes relational knowledge to the sites of contention. It sounds benevolent. Accused of lowering the bar on a slippery slope. The other half of Chris¹ question asks for delineation of what I mean by cruel and unusual arts. Examples: Tissue Culture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfOVEf7tVm0 Synthetic Biology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_2uNKGxlzw Embryology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mve5b8RW6_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBKgimtgWuM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZ6o8FIeiE Mutant Environmental testing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1XIpbI_rk Human Germline Alteration http://itp.nyu.edu/classes/germline-spring2013/ http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=7002 Firstly, do these Bioart exposures merely normalize our novel ways of toying with life? Wet-lab bioart has recently been read as a form of DIY Fukushima. (Loose quote from a rescent public debate about a GMO permit filed with the Ministry in the Hague to exhibit modified organisms (Solar Zeebrafish and Bipolar Flower) in the Errorarium at the Ja Natuurlijk exhibition with representatives: Rob Zwijnenberg, Per Staugaard, Lucas Evers De Waag,, Herman Bekken Greenpeace, Dirk de Jong Ministery of Economic Affairs and Miep Bos Gentechvrij {GMO Free EU}). http://www.biosolarcells.nl/onderzoek/maatschappelijke-aspecten/artist-in-la b-making-a-field-of-interpretation-for-biosolar-cells.html It is keen to ask, is citizen science merely a practice of assuaging the public¹s reactive disgust to new life science? This would be advertising, the use of fine¹ art as propaganda for the biotechnical bubble we fund. Actually, many DIY-BIO centres have no problem with the idea that these hands-on labs would be staged to promote acceptance of the inherent safety and casual usury that research entails. In fact, often being science led, they fear the good name of science being help in dissonant hands. http://genspace.org/event/20131007/1800/Biohacker%20Boot%20Camp Lust for life So art can pose prettily for public relations propping up science in a redundant campaign and art can also chide the public for not being more active in contestational debate: http://www.critical-art.net/MolecularInvasion.html If we uncover the root desire to inflict change, to breed or grow imagination in lineage form, this is the culturing of lust, the incubating of desire. Want is inbred and an excess of greed is more than likely a genetic aberration (potentially curable with gene therapy), but lust for life just is. What kind of transcendence leaves it¹s chthonic mark in the brains and germcells of the ones it has come to know? What is life without lust? Biotech is muddy parasitism. ³The urge to scope and poke, force evolution and morphologically sculpt is a bridge that joins the Arts and the Sciences. But, I will say this once because it is quite clear and concise, I think this process is cruel. Physical Manipulation DevBio Arts as a way towards knowing or sculpting Development is non-intuitive, intriguing, curious and lovely but there is no doubt that the process is meddlesome, violent, surgical and often gratuitously so.² AZ from THE MUTAGENIC ARTS magazine.ciac.ca/archives/no_23/en/dossier.htm More on lust in Bioart: Viva Vivo! Living Art Is Dead http://www.emutagen.com/downloads/leonardoZaretsky.pdf ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
[-empyre-] Redistributing the material world¹s diverse accents
--empyre- soft-skinned space--This is a response to Chris Robbins: I am answering a request for more definitive notion of art goals.¹ Beyond what I had said about bioart offering a reading of science and art in the difficult land of luxurious, useless, process based, conceptual, secular catechism. This former listing of art goals¹ is naïve modernism described. I think we are still there in the arts and the sciences, perpetuating the myth of the Avant Garde or as Laibach and NSK calls it: the Retro Garde. http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/archive/258-synthesis-retro-avant-garde- or-mapping-post-socialism-in-ex-yugoslavia- http://www.reanimator.8m.com/NSK/zizek.html Is the goal Tactical bioMedia? The showcasing or making public of techniques for scientific control over organismic development has a tactical design. This is a more popular way of explaining why we do public labs. To bring a hands-on experience to the untrained crowd-sources demystification and takes relational knowledge to the sites of contention. It sounds benevolent. Accused of lowering the bar on a slippery slope. The other half of Chris¹ question asks for delineation of what I mean by cruel and unusual arts. Examples: Tissue Culture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfOVEf7tVm0 Synthetic Biology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_2uNKGxlzw Embryology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mve5b8RW6_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBKgimtgWuM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgZ6o8FIeiE Mutant Environmental testing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1XIpbI_rk Human Germline Alteration http://itp.nyu.edu/classes/germline-spring2013/ http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=7002 Firstly, do these Bioart exposures merely normalize our novel ways of toying with life? Wet-lab bioart has recently been read as a form of DIY Fukushima. (Loose quote from a rescent public debate about a GMO permit filed with the Ministry in the Hague to exhibit modified organisms (Solar Zeebrafish and Bipolar Flower) in the Errorarium at the Ja Natuurlijk exhibition with representatives: Rob Zwijnenberg, Per Staugaard, Lucas Evers De Waag,, Herman Bekken Greenpeace, Dirk de Jong Ministery of Economic Affairs and Miep Bos Gentechvrij {GMO Free EU}). http://www.biosolarcells.nl/onderzoek/maatschappelijke-aspecten/artist-in-la b-making-a-field-of-interpretation-for-biosolar-cells.html It is keen to ask, is citizen science merely a practice of assuaging the public¹s reactive disgust to new life science? This would be advertising, the use of fine¹ art as propaganda for the biotechnical bubble we fund. Actually, many DIY-BIO centres have no problem with the idea that these hands-on labs would be staged to promote acceptance of the inherent safety and casual usury that research entails. In fact, often being science led, they fear the good name of science being help in dissonant hands. http://genspace.org/event/20131007/1800/Biohacker%20Boot%20Camp Lust for life So art can pose prettily for public relations propping up science in a redundant campaign and art can also chide the public for not being more active in contestational debate: http://www.critical-art.net/MolecularInvasion.html If we uncover the root desire to inflict change, to breed or grow imagination in lineage form, this is the culturing of lust, the incubating of desire. Want is inbred and an excess of greed is more than likely a genetic aberration (potentially curable with gene therapy), but lust for life just is. What kind of transcendence leaves it¹s chthonic mark in the brains and germcells of the ones it has come to know? What is life without lust? Biotech is muddy parasitism. ³The urge to scope and poke, force evolution and morphologically sculpt is a bridge that joins the Arts and the Sciences. But, I will say this once because it is quite clear and concise, I think this process is cruel. Physical Manipulation DevBio Arts as a way towards knowing or sculpting Development is non-intuitive, intriguing, curious and lovely but there is no doubt that the process is meddlesome, violent, surgical and often gratuitously so.² AZ from THE MUTAGENIC ARTS magazine.ciac.ca/archives/no_23/en/dossier.htm More on lust in Bioart: Viva Vivo! Living Art Is Dead http://www.emutagen.com/downloads/leonardoZaretsky.pdf ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre