Bioart: Life Affairs

• DIG gallery is oriented on presentation of works00:00:15.873
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• in the sphere of new media00:00:18.933
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• in other words so called postmedia00:00:22.080
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• or simply cross-connections between various art forms00:00:25.455
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• and scientific knowledge from ecology and other fields.00:00:30.234
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• Today's exhibition Bioart: Life Affairs is a kind of initiator,00:00:38.234
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• a somewhat introductory exhibition which as a matter of fact defines this area.00:00:44.817
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• My goal was to choose such works00:00:57.109
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• that provide some sort of intersection.00:01:00.028
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• I didn't want to complicate it,00:01:02.526
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• because this theme is still just one big taboo in Slovakia.00:01:04.373
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• /and this is actually how this really small scientific field/00:01:09.175
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• /which is even demonized by some occurs and it's called artificial life/00:01:11.317
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• It's a kind of interactive sound installation00:01:28.078
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• we managed to retrieve two images of the same sample of water00:01:33.368
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• the water is at first in a Petri dish under a microscope00:01:37.971
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• and then backlit by this lamp in a Petri dish00:01:40.916
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• and in this macro shot we can see protozoa00:01:45.203
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• those are organisms that we spend two weeks nurturing00:01:49.739
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• so that they would run around there00:01:53.160
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• and their movement is transformed into sound00:01:56.328
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• via a dataflow software called PureDate00:01:59.959
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• and this sound causes this quite strong subwoofer to vibrate00:02:03.939
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• and the result of this vibration is the resonance of the water line00:02:10.165
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• in the Petri dish which is backlit.00:02:14.537
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• that means that we can see these two circles:00:02:17.063
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• one of them contains the macro world00:02:19.849
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• and the other contains the same water00:02:22.043
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• but apart from the vibration it doesn't have any kind of value for us00:02:23.936
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• because we can't see the organisms that it contains.00:02:28.128
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• But for example yesterday when it dried up while we were trying this out00:02:32.297
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• you could see all these people were really compassionate,00:02:36.274
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• they were like: ooh they died, they're not there anymore.00:02:39.078
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• So, when we actually see it we start feeling sympathy for them00:02:42.456
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• Kind of like "out of sight out of might" or something like that00:02:46.561
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• Another artist who has provoked a kind of sharp reactions00:03:10.905
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• even in the discussion00:03:14.125
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• is a female Canadian artist Verena Kaminiarz00:03:15.795
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• who intervened subversively into a life of an organism called planarian00:03:21.558
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• I think that it's positive that we managed to00:03:30.987
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• draw some response from the invited scientists00:03:33.060
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• which was in a way the aim of this event;00:03:36.883
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• to combine this exhibition with something with an educational character.00:03:40.073
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• The exhibition itself was followed by00:03:43.850
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• a series of presentations of the main guest of the evening00:03:46.430
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• Polona Tratnik who talked about her project Hair in Vitro.00:03:54.868

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