BIO ART Eduardo Kac

?Bio art is an art practice where humans work with live tissues, bacteria, living organisms and life processes. Using scientific processes such as biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning) the artworks are produced in laboratories, galleries or artists’ studio.

An example of Bio art, made with bacteria expressing 8 different colors of fluorescent proteins.

Bio art requires the artists to work in laboratories, which is often foreign to the artists.

Much of the art involves tissue-culturing and transgenics.Transgenesis is a term fora variety of genetic engineering processes through which genetic material from one organism is altered by the addition of synthesized or transplanted genetic material from another organism.

STELARC – is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. In 2007, Stelarc had a cell-cultivated ear surgically attached to his left arm.

LAURA CINTI –

The Cactus Project is a collaborative bio-art project resulting in cactus’s expressing human hair.

JOE DAVIS – is a research affiliate in the Department of Biology at MIT and in the George Church Laboratory.

a microscope that translates light information into sound allowing you to "hear" living cells, each with its own "acoustic signature."

A whiff of sweet-smelling rain in a science labArtist-in-residence at Centre for Experimental Media and Arts at the Srishti School of Art and Design, Yashas Shetty got 10 art students, who knew nothing about working in a science lab, excited in a project to learn synthetic biology, the art of cobbling up different parts of DNA to create new creatures.

For three months, the students learnt how to isolate the DNA that made streptococci bacteria in soil give out the smell that we identify as the smell of rain. It’s an enzyme called geosmin that gives out the smell. The task was to articificially synthesise geosmin and run it in E Coli bacteria which is the commonly used vehicle

EDUARDO KAC

Lagoglyphs are a series of 12 bichrome silkscreens created by Kac in 2007 in which the artist develops a leporimorph or rabbitographic form of writing.

Kac considers himself a "transgenic artist," or "bio artist," usingtechnology and genetics to create provocative works thatconcomitantly explore scientific techniques and critique them.

Eduardo Kac is a contemporary American artist of Brazilian descent and professor of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kac was born in 1962 in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. Kac has worked in numerous and diverse artistic media since he began practicing in the early 1980s

Natural History of the Enigma

The new flower is a Petunia strain that has been invented and produced through molecular biology by Eduardo Kac. It is not found in nature. 

The Edunia has red veins on light pink petals and a gene of Kac is expressed on every cell of its red veins, i.e. his gene produces a protein in the veins only.

GFP Bunny

"GFP Bunny" is a transgenic artwork that comprises the creation of a green fluorescent rabbit ("Alba"), the public dialogue generated by the project, and the social integration of the rabbit.

Genesis

Genesis was commissioned by Ars Electronica 99 and presented online and at the O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, from September 4 to 19, 1999.

Genesis is a transgenic artwork that explores the intricate relationship between biology, belief systems, information technology, dialogical interaction, ethics, and the Internet

Specimen of Secrecy About Marvelous Discoveries

Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries" is a series of works comprised of what I call "biotopes", i.e., living pieces that change during the exhibition in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions.

The artist orchestrates the metabolism of these organisms in order to produce his constantly evolving living works.

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