Bioart: Life Affairs
New DIG gallery in Kosice which focuses on the art of new media, post media and art in connection with technologies has introduced its first exhibition dedicated to Bioart. Is life only an accidental chemical reaction? Is a human body an obsolete puzzle? Where is the border between natural and artificial life?
- 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