Syndicate: Fwd: CTHEORY Multimedia: Tech Flesh

[Chris Byrne <chris@cryptic.demon.co.uk>]

Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:12:29 -0400
From: timothy murray <tcm1@cornell.edu>
Subject: CTHEORY Multimedia: Tech Flesh


Announcing, CTHEORY Multimedia, Issue 2: "Tech Flesh: The Promise and
Perils of the Humane Genome Project." Curators: Arthur Kroker, Marilouise
Kroker, and Timothy Murray; programmer and designer: Kristr?n
Gunnarsd?ttir.

URL: http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu

Tech Flesh explores the artistic issues raised by the Human Genome Project.
Widely hyped as a "bible of life" and a "map" to the future of human
evolution, the Human Genome Project throws into sharp ethical relief
critical social issues raised by this newest phase in eugenic
experimentation. Simultaneously speaking in terms of the language of
facilitation (post-genetics as about the eradication of disease and the
extension of the human life span) and the language of control (genetic
sequencing as the latest pharmaceutical version of the social hygiene
movement), the Human Genome Project with its vision of pure genes and
designer biology raises again the specter of scientific hubris and the
silent political interests of a potential genetic superclass. It also
breeds an intersection between art and science in which the destiny of
automated sequence is performed as the enigma of artistic display. This
issue of CTHEORY Multimedia is devoted to the diversity of artistic
perspectives on the promise and perils of the Human Genome Project. Tech
Flesh is the digital screen of the artistic ramifications of paradigms of
cloning, transgenic humans, disabled embryos, digital sequencing, and
nanotechnology. This is the tactic of multimedia cDNA as a distributed
informatic critique.

Exhibiting artists: Alejandro, Michele Barker, Orit Halpern, Tal Halpern,
Matthew Hawker, Ashley Holmes, Tiia Johannson, Diane Ludin, Rachel Mayeri,
MEZ [Mary-Anne Breeze], Out_of_Sync [Maria Miranda & Norie Neumark], Robin
Parmar, Brian Todd, Gary Zebington, Judson Wright, Alison Gail Wright.

CTHEORY Multimedia is published and archived by the Cornell University
Library Electronic Publishing Program.




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Chris Byrne                          chris@mediascot.org
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New Media Scotland              http://www.mediascot.org
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