Imagination, Archive and Programming the Life_ version 2.0

a 2014

Imagination, Archive and Programming the Life_ version 2.0

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva

Basic information

Original name

Imagination, Archive and Programming the Life_ version 2.0

Name in Czech

Imaginace archiv a programování života_verze 2.0

Authors

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

"Visual In-Sights. Theory, Method, Practice" Newcastle University, UK, 2014

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Conference abstract

Field of Study

Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/14:00073985

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords (in Czech)

DNA ikonologie BioaArt SciArt biomoc

Keywords in English

DNA iconology BioArt SciArt biopower

Abstract

V originále

The visual imagery of DNA has become a cultural icon and important part of our contemporary way of seeing and speaking about the human body. As Suzzane Anker and Dorothy Nelkin point out in their book called The Molecular Gaze. Art in the genetic Age (2004 ), molecular screening or modern imaging technology, has become a source of multiple metaphors and provocative visual images. In our cultural discourse, the gene has become a powerful and pervasive icon – an almost magical force. There are many artists an d visual performers who use live cells, tissue, or genes to create, perform and re - program living things, and work with the specific visual imagination of the human body. They are part of a broader current of artists who are intrigued by DNA, genetics, and working with live tissues. BioArt and SciArt are not only imagination of the human body at the aesthetical level, but through their works artists stimulate the audience to face some existential questions. Some of the questions are disturbing; it is diffic ult or impossible to reach simple answers about the fact of human embodiment, the borderlines of humanity, or the in/separability the self, mind, soul and body. Taking advantage of critical social and visual theory (Hayles, Foucault, Mitchell, Flusser), th is paper examines the narrative concerning the production of knowledge within interpretation of various imaginations of DNA, genom, embryos, and cultural production of transhuman taxonomies and classifications as well. Particularly, art works of Patricia P iccicini, Luis Bec and SciArt centre CIANT will be analysed.

Links

GAP404/11/0621, research and development project

Name: Porody, asistovaná reprodukce a zacházení s embryi. Sociologická analýza současné reprodukční medicíny v ČR.

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Childbirth, assisted reproduction, and embryo manipulation. A sociological analysis of current reproductive medicine in

Cite

ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. Imagination, Archive and Programming the Life_ version 2.0. In "Visual In-Sights. Theory, Method, Practice" Newcastle University, UK. 2014.

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ŠLESINGEROVÁ, Eva. Imagination, Archive and Programming the Life\_{} version 2.0. In \textit{''Visual In-Sights. Theory, Method, Practice'' Newcastle University, UK}. 2014.

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