Re: LIFESCIENCE: The Clone Age : Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology

["Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard" <B.Richard@kunst.uni-frankfurt.de>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
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David Washington schrieb:

> Yes, but this is a academic view point.
>

that maybe

>
> There is this myth about invention that it happens in the context of
> big-science.
>

so where does it happen then, only in art, that is a myth too and a totally
overscale view of the contemporary possibilities of art because art alwways part
of an art system called art market.

> Institutions are good at leveraging and thru leveraging fulfilling the
> profit/power motive.
>

that maybe in the biotechnological sciences

> Yes, and have fun doing it!!!
>

so that is okay let4s try it

> My point, what if your art is a Mirror?

art is always a twisted mirror of what is going on in society, you just have to
be able to read their signs

>
> What if you create a lifeform that shows people their own inner faces?
>  like I feel  fine-art should do. )
>

that would be great, but that is the point which people are most afraid of, a
clon would tell something about them.

regards to david
birgit

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