Dear Spectrites,
I am happy to bring to your attention 3 new "ear candy" in
the Leonardo podcast series on the META-LIFE channel, 3
podcasts (no less !) with Adam Zaretsky.
Enjoy !
Best
Annick
META-LIFE
http://creativedisturbance.org/channel/meta-life/
• What’s so Sexy with the Biological? [ENG]
Adam Zaretsky is an artist and professor in Media Arts at
Marist College (NY, USA) who develops a practice that
integrates the fields of Ecology, Biotechnology, Performance
and Gastronomy. Drawing upon the questions raised by one of
his texts on transgenic art, the podcast addresses several
issues such as the bioethics of new technology, that of
genetic modification, the public understanding of science or
even the appeal for biology in contemporary art. Is science
making better performance than art? How far ranging human
gene editing can get us to? What is so sexy with the
biological today?
• Curie’s children and the biological exuberance [ENG]
Why should artists and designers worry about the production
of drugs and food? In this second part of the interview,
bioartist Adam Zaretsky defends his views on the ethics and
aesthetics of utility, with respect to local context, values
and culture. Echoing with Flusser’s ideas in Curie’s
Children [Art Forum, 1988], the remaining part of the
podcast deals with the topics of human enhancement and
biological exuberance, Zaretsky calling for the advancement
of a queer transhumanism.
• We are wild poetry! Hubris, deextinction and speculative
art [ENG]
In this final section of the interview, Adam Zaretsky shares
his views on the relationship between literature and
biology, code and language, poetry and bioinformatics. He
addresses the question of hubris in biotechnology and
delivers his take on sensitive issues such as human gene
editing and resurrection biology. The podcast also talks
about the place of speculative thought in new media art.
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