From: Catherine Waldby
Re: SESSION ONE: IMAGING IN ART AND SCIENCE
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:40:24 +1100
Hi ya,
re question 3 [see previous posts below]
I often see a relationship between digital imaging and its endless mutability and tissue engineering, rDNA technology and the mutability of organisms. Sometimes digital animation, manga and sci-fi images appear to act like testing grounds or articulations of biology’s new aspirations to endlessly reorder morphology, to tinker with embryogenesis, to both cause and prevent mutation etc
It is a relationship well exemplified by Patricia Piccinini’s work* – her very obviously synthesized images of cute but very disturbing pet like creatures who are themselves both synthesized and domesticated somehow – the viewer is left to imagine their provenance
Catherine Waldby
* PATRICIA PICCININI
From the We Are All Family installation at the Venice Biennale, 2003
http://www.patriciapiccinini.net
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