Sound Of Sirens

It seems to be finally high time to visit the New Museum in NYC! (if for no other reason than simply because of the building by SANAA)

In occasion of a new exhibiton called Media Art in the Age of Transgenics, Cloning, and Genomics i’d like to spread some relatied links.

Let’s start with We make Mony Not Art. They’ve got 2 very nice articles about “Ecological Strategies in Today’s Art” - part 1 & part 2, which base on a same named exhibiton at Edith Russ Site for Media Art. You’ll find a lot of background info and links there!

There is a huge field called Bio Art or Biotech Art where “the medium is living matter and the “works of art” are produced in laboratories and/or artists’ and designers’ studios. [...]“ (Wikipedia) For example DNA-visualisations are a popluar theme. My favourite blog about that all is Organism: Making Art with Living Systems. They take a step forward by posting more critical works, too.

German readers find an interesting article at arte.tv called “Was ist ‘Biokunst’? – Ein mutierender Begriff unter der Lupe”. I’s from 2004 but still quite worthy to read, i guess. It referrs to a french site named Colloque Bioart (which seems to be currently broken, unfortunately).

Several noticeable artists are Caitlin Berrigan, Adam Zaretzky, Brandon Ballengee and Kathy High. (They all take part at the New Museum exhibiton, btw.) WMMNA calls them the “cream of biotech art”.

And another good ressource is neural.it - filed under “art, biotech, music, science, sound” you’ll find some more flashy projects, exhibitons and artists. Neural.it is available in italian & english.

Well, that’s all for now. Feel inspired and enjoy installations with great names like: “Feeding Plants with Gatorade and Growing Them in Golf Balls”.