Week 6 Bio Tech + Art= Art?

For me I think there should be limitations on human creativity.  Its hard for to really even agree with myself on that, because I believe in freedom to express and find yourself as an artist.  But testing products on animals or humans in general to me is augmented form of freedom that is not in my realm of creativity.  I think we should use what we have on this earth and stop using unnatural chemicals, or non homeopathic chemicals, which brings me to tense up and close myself off to the ideas spawning from those methods.

I don't have a complete black and white answer but a more gray area for "Transgenic Art." Eduardo Kac created Alba, who was an albino bunny that glowed in the dark. It was created with a zygote micro injection taken from a protein from jellyfish, which was a modified gene, that was then inserted into the rabbit eggs, which made it a fluorescent bunny.  I think that is something really amazing and really interesting.  But I am sure that the Bunny is not able to live within a Rabbit community anymore, which makes me sad.  

So I don't have a complete black and white answer but a more gray area for each situation. Or when Marta De Menezes modified butterfly wings but had holes in them, that is super interesting but I don't like that the Butterfly lost its ability to fly.

I am not really sure for the reason of The Ear Art. Using sub-dermal implant of a ear in the left art, then the body heals over the implant. This whole idea of Trans-Humanism, where our body is not enough. And we need to improve human conditions and fight limitations, believing the body is obsolete, I guess I don't really get why.

I felt very connected with the Interview Michael Pollan for Food Inc, on connecting the dots on our food and its history. Corn is at the basis of all food because we subsidize it, we feed cattle corn, which makes them sick, then we give them drugs to keep them alive. We use that meat and put ammonia in it to make edible.

All food comes from the sun, or should, but we figured out how to make petroleum into food instead of the sun. Natural way of things make the most sense to me. And is what inspires me to create.

References:

1. "Why Animal Rights?" PETA. peta.org. Web. 10 May 2015. <http://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/why-animal-rights/>

2. Wenk, Gary. "This Is Your Brain On Food." This Is Your Brain on Food § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. Seed Media Group, Sept. 2010. Web. 7 May 2015.

3.SymbioticA. "SymbioticA." The University of Western Australia. SymbioticA, 13 Apr. 2015. Web. 10 May 2015

4. Vesna, Victoria. "Biotechnology and Art." Biotechnology and Art. UCLA, Los Angeles. 10 May 2015. Lecture.

5. De Menezes, Marta. "Nature?" Projects: Nature? Marta De Menezes, 2002. Web. 08 May 2015.

6. Atala, Anthony. "Growing New Organs." TED. TED, Oct. 2009. Web. 9 May 2015. <http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_growing_organs_engineering_tissue>.

7.https://www.pinterest.com/pin/470837336017409414/

8. https://www.singularityweblog.com/stelarc/