Oron Catts / biofrictions

27/2 2020

What is going on. Major transformations. Biofabricate. 'investor meets innovator meetings'. Biology as an engineering pursuit. 
The work was totally misunderstood.

Disconnect between what we need to do and how institutions operate/

20th century

social contracts of science: truth
art makes the everyday strange (Picasso?)
engineering/tech: making knowledge into use (!)
design: make desires into products

NOW

sciences: makes strange
art: neo-liberal tool
tech: fake it until you can make it
design: speculate, hype

life + tech become more alike.
psychopathologies of control

sentience - non-sentience.

industry and life. 

assembly line only after dissamblying life

cybernatics: thermostat.
Life as a raw material. 

Keeping fragments alive. 

tissue culture as a body.

machine body hybrids. 
freaks: babies in incubators.

replaceable body.
the weirdness of objects of partial life.

bio-mess https://tcaproject.net/portfolio/biomess/

life as a raw material

Andie Gracie

DIY biology 
Biotech hobbyist mag 1998
tinkering with biology

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comment/question

difference between affirmative and optimistic
caring - control.

the problem of talking about life
no language

risk of instrumentalizing

'the new lead in the pipes' - social media.
poison