Biomediale. Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture

Dmitry Bulatov

The National Publishing House "Yantarny Skaz", ISBN 5740608537 In the build up to its own autonomy Bio Art (a term defined by Jens Hauser, curator of the seminal exhibition 'L'Art Biotech' as a "disgrace etymological") is going through the necessary steps trajectories for a complete definition, gaining autonomy conceptual set aside from the only means used. The file can be drawn from an obscure historical imagery that draws, for example, the ancient concept of 'chimera', hybrid creature composed of different species, which expresses its compositional coherence, together with paradoxical and efficient. The facets involved by getting your hands dirty with the organic material into its constituent elements (genes, cells, proteins, etc..) Are varied, such as the analysis of the female body as a laboratory contemporary technological (in the performance of the collective Subrosa), contrasting conceptually prevailing eugenic models of development, or the application of proven patterns of appropriation of knowledge, such as the Open Source DNA Eugene Thacker . The ferment that gave birth very different strands of the Critical Art Ensemble and Eduardo Kac can now be recognized properly by filtering the flow of media announcements industrial theme, performed here by Ricardo Dominguez , or reconstructed through the reflections on clones and their mediatic reproductions of Birgit Richard. In this way you can get the pulse of the silent conflict that surrounds these issues. At a time when human intervention is the organic creatures of the same extent as that of the past decades on the environment, and the construction of living is a matter of fact, the definition of critical positions widely shared social becomes the pivot around which to rotate the cultural development of these technologies.