LIFESCIENCE: PRESS RELEASE-Sphinx

[Trevor <tebatt@dds.nl>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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PRESS RELEASE (Extrct.)

Today B-Gen-Tech Inc. announced the signing of a contract with biogenetic
artist Trevor Batten to design their new range of "Sphinx" which will be
cloned for sale to tourists in Egypt.
Production is expected to start early next year.

Rumours that production has ceased on the flying horse for the Greek market
after the prototype was eaten by a cyclops have been strongly denied. A
spokesman claimed that production of the "virgin Mary" doll was progressing
on schedule but admitted that although the parthegenic principle was solved
there were still problems
in balancing the rate of reproduction. Consumer tests were still in
progress.

Share prices still showed signs of nervousness after plans for a "Dr.
Frankinstein Monster" were modified after the "Boris Carloff" copywrite
holder won their case last month. Plans to build a "Mary Shelly Original"
have run into problems with the bio-degradabilty problem. A spokesman
stated that models with an evolutionary time element often gave termination
and disposal problems. Worries about the environment in Antartica remained a
prime concern.

A spokesperson for the ORF in Linz refused to comment on the possibility of
their having exclusive transmission rights for the European Dragon Baiting
Championship
organised by Great Britain and Barcelona in cooperation with other places
with strong traditions relating to St.George.

Trevor Batten has not been seen in public since the incident early last year
at 
the Biogenetic Artists Conference in New Mexico where he(?) appeared as a
giant fly.
His agent also refused to comment -and gestured that his lips were sealed.

EUROTIMES Synd.
PARIS/BERLIN/LONDON/MOSKWA
7 May 2001


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