“Intimate Science” Exhibition

Intimate Science > Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University

Just in Time for the Olympics, British Artist Grows World’s First Soccer Ball From Living Cells | Artinfo

Just in Time for the Olympics, British Artist Grows World’s First Soccer Ball From Living Cells | Artinfo.

Oron Catts: The Aesthetics of Failure | Australian Design Review

Oron Catts: The Aesthetics of Failure | Australian Design Review.

Readings for BioArt Class Leiden

For the BioArt Class in Leiden, the Netherlands which I will join tomorrow we had to read through the following links and websites:

www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk

www.peta.org

I think I am against animal research and I don´t think that healing human deseases justifies the “use” of animals; on the other hand I realize that this is silly because I am not a vegetarian neither which shows that I don´t seem to have much respect of animals, too.

We will discuss this questions tomorrow, I think it will be interesting.

“Animal needs” in BioArt

Today I gave a short talk in the context of the seminat “Tierbedarf” (animal needs) at KHM Cologne.

In how far animals are uses (seen from the concept of the artwork) to say something about human conditions? as representants for human beings?