Artlink Magazine Bio Art Vorige editie

Editor: Stephanie Britton
Consultant editor: Melentie Pandilovski
Bio-art inhabits a realm within the art/science/medicine/technology matrix and this international issue examines a world where human beings are evolving in response to the rapid progress of biotechnology in medicine, genetics, and science.
The work of a biotech artist might include extensions to the body; the relationship of living to non-living; bio-couture (living ‘textiles’) the future of cyborgian systems; man-machine interactions and a great deal more. Microbes and bacteria are one of the new frontiers in the understanding of life on earth, and have started to appear as the raw materials of art in various contexts. The changing definitions of the moment of irreversible death and the definition of life itself have major implications for philosophers, ethicists and artists alike. Artists profiled in this issue include Helen Pynor, Anna Dumitriu, Pinar Yoldas, Donna Franklin, SymbioticA Tissue Culture & Art, Paul Thomas, Tagny Duff, Sissel Tolaas. Stelarc, Eduardo Kac and many more.
Artlink is one of the few international art magazines to address the topic of bio art, providing information on the extraordinary ferment of activity in the work of artists working in the field of scientific and medical research as residents and provocateurs.
This issue has been produced with the assistance of international expert on Bio-technology and art, Dr Melentie Pandilovski, Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg.