Week 6: BioTech + Art
Just as technology has expanded the minds and opportunities for artists, biotechnology has had similar effects, however in a different aspect in my opinion. Artists over the past few decades have reportedly been spending just as much time in the laboratory as the studio, working with biotechnologists, working with human tissues and DNA samples. (Miranda). Image 1: Joe Davis, Audio Microscope Joe Davis, the pioneer of bioart, worked with several molecular biologists and who taught him about genomes, the genetic material of an organism. Davis tried to convince them to synthesize DNA and insert them into genomes of living bacteria. His ideas led him to the audio microscope which translated light information into sound in order to hear living cells. He also performed studies examining how E-coli bacteria responds to jazz music. To me, I see Davis's work as experimentation between biology and techn...
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