From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 14:31:09 MST
'Transgenic art, I propose, is a new art form based on the use
of genetic engineering techniques to transfer synthetic genes
to an organism or to transfer natural genetic material from one
species into another, to create unique living beings.
Molecular genetics allows the artist to engineer the plant and
animal genome and create new life forms.
The nature of this new art is defined not only by the birth
and growth of a new plant or animal but above all by the
nature of the relationship between artist, public, and transgenic
organism.
Organisms created in the context of transgenic art can be taken
home by the public to be grown in the backyard or raised as human
companions.
With at least one endangered species becoming extinct every day,
I suggest that artists can contribute to increase global biodiversity
by inventing new life forms.'
- Eduardo Kac
http://www.ekac.org/transgenic.html
http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html
http://www.geneart.org/genome-intro.htm
http://www.geneart.org/genome-Kac.htm
http://www.ekac.org/
http://www.geneart.org/genehome.htm
http://www.geneart.org/offerings.htm
http://embryo.inet.hr/
http://www.genochoice.com/
http://www.d-b.net/dti/
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