Re: LIFESCIENCE: The Clone Age

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

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Eugene Thacker wrote


> some interesting comments, thanks birgit, david, & melinda...
>
> is this a will to innovation?

perhaps it is not the will to innovation. this would be framed by thoughts of a constantly
progressing human race, for the artist it should be more like a comment or a provocative act
maybe?

> Does it intersect w/ some kind of bio-evoultionary
> "instinct" (the common notion that artists - like scientists? - have
> Kandinsky's "inner necessity")?

no i don4t think of inner necessity that is more of the kind of the inventing and creating
artist genius

> Doesn't the tautology of invention=art

i would not make this tautology not every invention is art, fact  is only that science like
lifescience is designing something.
and that is the point it is designing for a special purpose for a special function and this has
nothing to do with this old paradigm of Kant that art does not aim for any functional purpose,
(sorry not able to put in correct english terms)
greetings and thanks for all your comments and posting, keep the discussion moving
birgit
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