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Art Seminar - Art 895 |
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WEEK
1 Course Notes
- Meet each other
- Required Book: Signs
of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, ed. Eduardo Kac, (MIT Press,
2007) Š It should be available at the bookstore.
- Review course requirements
- Discuss date for Field trip to the Department
of Entomology, Arnoff
laboratories 318 West 12th Avenue
Other inspirational biology resources at OSU? Wetlands
Research Park, Borror
Laboratory of Bioacoustics
- Shows to apply for:
Art
Biologic, Hudson, NY, May 3-24, 2008 - APPLY
TO THIS ONE! submissions due Feb 29
Biological
Imperative, Newark, NJ June 14 - July 26 2008 Š APPLY
TO THIS ONE! submissions due april 15
- Top 10 New Organisms of 2007 in Wired
- Overview of key artists and concepts in Bio Art
- Villem Flusser essay, On Science
- Manipulations of living things, Orlan, Kac, Arborsculpture
- Political and ethical dimensions, Critical Art Ensemble,
Wilding,
- Alive and in the gallery, Jannis Kounellis, Tissue Culture & Art
Group
- Art and Ecology, Mel Chin, Agnes Denes
- Art inspired by biology, living systems, artificial
life and DNA, Ernst Haeckel, Catherine Chalmers, Wim Delvoye
- Science/Art collaborations and residencies, Joe Davis, Symbiotica
- Futures hopes and fears, Virgil Wong, Alexis Rockman
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From the Phenomena
(1) exhibition
at Spaces gallery in Cleveland - E.G. Crichton, Matter Out of Place
(Clairol, scope, vaseline), 2006
WEEK 2 Course Notes
- Discuss readings, Art that Looks You in
the Eye: Hybrids, Clones, Mutants, Synthetics and Transgenics, by
Eduardo Kac, in Signs
of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, (read pp. 1 -14)
Why I Breed Plants, by George
Gessert, in Signs
of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, pp. 185 -197
OneTree, by Natalie Jeremijenko, in Signs
of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, pp. 301 - 302
- Tues. Jan 22, 9:00am, Date for Field trip to the Department
of Entomology, Arnoff laboratories 318 West 12th Avenue
- Shows to go to: Phenomena
(1) exhibition and Re(Re)Production,
both at Spaces
gallery in Cleveland
- Villem Flusser, On Science
- Slideshow of my work
- Manipulations of living things
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WEEK
3 Course Notes
- Political and Ethical Dimensions
- Animal Rights
- Joe Davis' Ornithopter
- Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, Victimless Leather and Disembodied
Cuisine
- Eduardo Kac, GFP Bunny
- Bryan Crockett, Ecco Homo Rattus
- Kathy High, Embracing Animal
- Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights
- SubRosa's Cell Track, Mapping the Appropriation
of Life Materials
- Cynthia Verspaget's, Anarchy Cell Line, investigating
the HeLa cell line history
- Larry Miller's Genetic Code Copyright (downloadable
certificate)
- Chrissy Conant's Chrissy Caviar
- Eugenics
- Paul Vanouse's Relative Inscription Velocity Device
- Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Banks in Pink and Blue
- Nancy Burson, Human Race Machine
- Big Science vs. amateur science
- Critical Art Ensemble
- Cynthia Verspaget's, IncuBra
- Mark Dion
- Adam Zaretsky, Workhorse Zoo
- Discuss readings: Chapter 2 Biopiracy:
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, by Vandana Shiva, South
End Press, 1997
Leonardo's
choice: the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies,
by Carol Gigliotti
The Relative Velocity Inscription
Device, by Paul Vanouse, in Signs
of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, pp.277 - 283
[optional: Amateurity
and Biotechnology, by Natalie Jeremijenko, download PDF from Biotech
Hobbiest]
[optional: Liberating
Life from Itself: Bioethics and Aesthetics of Animality, by Dominique
Lestel, in Signs
of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, pp. 151 - 160
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6 Course Notes
- Student presentations begin
- Lecture onBiological materials in the gallery
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| Amy
Youngs | Art & Technology | Department
of Art | The Ohio State University |