GENETIC ENGINEERING AND CONTEMPORARY ART: STRUCTURAL ASPECTS AND THE PROBLEMS
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND CONTEMPORARY ART: STRUCTURAL ASPECTS AND THE PROBLEMS

Summary/Abstract: Today innovation is the result of complex interactions between individuals, organizations and external factors. Turning to the metaphor of evolution one can say that the rule “the more adapted to the environment survives” is substituted by the rule “anything that conveys the environment more precisely survives”. In the process of continuous complication of systems new correlations emerge between cognitive knowledge and effective model, logic and image, reality and representation. The development of new interdisciplinary relations in the sphere of contemporary knowledge, from science to contemporary art, from the methods of data processing to the methods of metaphor presentation, is particularly influenced by the progress in the field of techno-biological research. Hence new domains appear that combine various methods of scientific and artistic representation based on techno-biological modelling. In the new reality, which becomes more and more artificial and media-conditioned, a new sign regime is established, which cancels the historically shaped boundaries between nature and culture, natural science and humanitarian technologies. In these conditions it is quite natural when a researcher after having analyzed the characteristics of the contemporary techno-biological domain, wants to comprehend the way they impact the development of new artistic strategies and the essence of their novelty.

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