Art Takes on Ethics
Nora Vaage reviews 'Trust Me, I'm an Artist', an exhibition organized in
cooperation with the Waag Society at Zone2Source's Het Glazen Huis in
Amstelpark, in the outskirts of Amsterdam. The artworks: challenge, stretch,
and provoke ideas about the ethical complexities of emerging (bio)technologies.
From masks grown from skin cells to dress patches containing gene-edited E.
coli bacteria, the works give us new grounds for reflection on ethics, trust,
and responsibility in science, society and art.
The explorations in the exhibition have taken place through a play on the
format of 'the ethics committee'. In university contexts, particularly within
medicine and the natural sciences, researchers need to submit their proposals
to ethics committees to check whether their proposed projects comply with the
relevant ethical guidelines, and to point to any issues the researchers hadn't
thought of.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/art-takes-ethics
Wishing you well.
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
Art, technology and social change, since 1996
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
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