Publication details
Život jako biotechnologické umělecké dílo : Antropologie a umění živého
| Title in English | Life as a Biotechnological Artwork : Anthropology, Life, and Art |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | The Journal Of Culture |
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| Keywords | bioart; life; body; multispecies anthropology;Life-engineering; Biopower |
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| Description | Using concrete biotechnological artworks by Ken Rinaldo, this short essay contemplates current forms of collaboration between science and art in connection with the liminal nature of anthropos. The art branch called bioart or sciart is influenced by genetics, informatics, and bionics; artists in this field work with living tissues, creating artificial forms of life and simulations of life. The text analyses biotechnological art in the context of societies where biology is becoming technological and technology is beco-ming biological. It examines select projects by Ken Rinaldo 3-Story Robots, Autopoiesis, C/Borg – The Parliament of Robots, and Borderless Bacteria as special assemblages of humans, animals, objects, and digital inter-faces. Taking advantage of the perspectives of the anthropology of life and multispecies anthropology, the artworks are analyzed as means towards rethinking the limits of humanness, artificial forms of life, quasi-humanity, and the figure of anthropos. |
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