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Laboratorium artysty – stworzenie bio-artu
Artist’s laboratory. Creation of Bio-art

Author(s): Magdalena Lange Henszke
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Art
Published by: Instytut Badań Edukacyjnych
Keywords: extreme conditions; extremophiles; thermophiles; life in space;

Summary/Abstract: As a result of the development of science, biotechnology the man found himself at the moment in which he can hold the living cell in his hand and create all kinds of forms with it. This possibility led artists to the laboratories. Artists, for whom modern biology and biotechnology has become an artistic inspiration, and the artistic medium mostly living: microorganisms, plants, animals, cells, human tissue, are called as the artists of bio-art. Presenting the bio-art works according to their characteristics, I am showing how the DNA molecule and tissue culture shaped the artistic form.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 31-34
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish