The Newer technologies - Bio   and Nanotech

Overview

In the early 1990s, the very term "digital" was new and novel, and it's impact on communications and media design has undoubtedly been enormous. However, by the middle of the first decade of the new century, these impacts are already ubiquitous and everyday. E-mail, Internet, mobile phones, the power of databases, games, movie special effects, workplace productivity tools - these have all become mainstream, commonplace, expected, and default. With digital media now normalised, we are already living in what has been described as the   "post-digital" age.

At the same time, popular attention has turned to the potentials and problems of the "newer" new technologies, bio and nano, and global phenomenon such as terrorism, super-epidemics and climate change have developed from distant concerns to everyday realities. With bio and nano technologies predicted to reach a new level of potency in the near future, they become rich ground for both artistic examination/inspiration, and an actual media of production.

Primary Reading

"For nanoart to imitate real life, exhibition goes back to basics" by Mark Frauenfelder in SmallTimes website.

http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=7421

"Nanotechnology Art Gallery" in the Nanotechnology Now website

http://www.nanotech-now.com/nanotechnology-art-gallery.htm

"Art Imitates Life-Science: The Bio-Art Movement Finds (Cultures & Grows) Its Wings in France" by Shana Ting Lipton

http://www.shanatinglipton.com/bio-art-1.html

The website of Symbiotica at the University of Western Australia, "a research laboratory dedicated to the artistic exploration of scientific knowledge in general, and biological technologies in particular."

http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/

"Ladyboys: Human Art" by Skyler Thomas in Switch Journal Issue 21

http://switch.sjsu.edu/

More

"Here Be Dragons!: Bio-art beyond the edge of everything." by Anne Farren and Andrew Hutchison in Switch Journal Issue 21

http://switch.sjsu.edu/

"Welcome to the World of BioArt" by Jane Coakley in the ABC Arts on-line website.

http://www.abc.net.au/arts/digital/stories/s877305.htm

"Telepresence and Bio Art : Networking Humans, Rabbits and Robots" by Eduardo Kac, 2005. University of Michigan Press.

The website of Tissue Culture and Art

http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/

The website of Eduardo Kac

http://www.ekac.org/

The website of the Bioteknica organisation

http://www.bioteknica.org/