Re: LIFESCIENCE: Responsibility diversity and tolerance

[melinda rackham <melinda@subtle.net>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
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> Intellectual, cultural and biological diversity are essential to our
> survival.
>with an uncritical acceptance
> of (commercial) trends being the only position actually being propagated.
>
> Which seemed to be exactly the point we were not allowed to discuss?

bioethics is certainly an area that needs expansion here.. perhaps  artist
who are dealing with these issues right now arent as widely accessable  as
the older generation of artists like  the earlier mentioned man'o steel
stellarc and woman'o.silicone orlan..who i see in a very uncritical
position..playing with cyborg possibilites in quiet a clunky superficial
way.

other artists like australians  ionat zuur  and oran catts who engineer
tissue culture as living sculptural objects.. are looking at the
integration of  an art/science interface.. http://www.imago.com.au/tca/.

its fuuny that ethical issues  always seems to be relegated to some
committe that looks into what has happened after the fact.. and that those
who oppose " scientific progress" are labelled as  anti social misfits,
untill sometime later when a new ecological/biological/ virilogical
disaster happens.

its about global thinking, which hopefull the net should foster more of,
as oopposed to  local thinking, ie only being concerned with more yields
therefore higher profits from gm crops, rather tahn seeing gm crops as a
part of the food chain that effects our whole life world.

melinda

melinda rackham
_____________ http://www.subtle.net


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