Week 6 BioArt

This week's topic is very interesting but controversy. After I have taken this class, I found many "unrelated" fields can be connected. I never think of artist and scientist can work in the same laboratory to produce art work using bio technology.  BioAct brings many possibilities that can be seen everywhere. For example, the genetically modified food with various artistic shape and color.

 http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-images-different-genetically-modified-food-image1274
Different color let strawberry reborn as an amazing artwork!

http://panacea-bocaf.org/geneticallymodifiedfood.htm
Genetically modified food is using the technology that inject a specific gene of one kind of organism into another unrelated organism.  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAP6ZtfP9ZQ

http://decryptedmatrix.com/live/gmo-alert-top-10-genetically-modified-foods-to-avoid-eating/
You can never image when you buy an orange from super market and cut it off, then you actually see a kiwi inside!
However, this combination is only for art show but not good for eating.
Statistic shows that eating a lot of genetically modified food will link to many strange disease that is truly harmful for your health.



Back to Professor's lecture, what attracted me most was the example of Joe Davis and Eduardo Kac.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/03/the-mad-scientist-of-mit.html
Joe Davis, the pioneer who connected Bio and Art, wanted to create a "info-gene" for translating human being genes into meaning. He questioned what is life and how we manipulate life, and his famous quote:" The most absurd things are connected in very absurd ways." leaded a crazy trend that many BioArt performance occurred.

http://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2011/03/bioart.html
Another outstanding BioArt work was created by Eduardo Kac named Alba, a green fluorescent bunny. It is not only a scientific pet which is inserted jellyfish's fluorescent protein, but also a transgenic artwork that when you turn off the lights to switch on the ultra violet lamps, and it will become a GFP Bunny.









overall, the use of biotechnology and art helps human being survive better and improves our life.

Citations:
AbbyMediaRoots. "What is Genetically Modified Food?" Dec 16. 2009. Web. Nov 10. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAP6ZtfP9ZQ>
John May. BioArt. Mar 06. 2011. Web. Nov 10. 2013. <http://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2011/03/bioart.html>
Web. Nov 10. 2013. <http://panacea-bocaf.org/geneticallymodifiedfood.htm>

Phil Mckenna. "Joe Davis: The mad scientist of MIT?" Mar 23. 2012. Web. Nov 10. 2013. <http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2012/03/the-mad-scientist-of-mit.html>
Vesna, Victoria. Unit 6 Lecture BioTech+Art. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaThVnA1kyg#t=157>