Issue 28 11.20.13
Biohacking
by Sara Gevurtz Recently there has been a growing trend of do-it-yourself spaces popping up. These spaces allow anyone who is just curious or crafty to create and build new things. A recent space that focuses on “biohacking,” or experimenting with biology, has opened in the Silicon Valley. I have recently checked out this new hackerspace, […]
BioCurious
Introduction by Sara Gevurtz In the past, if you were an artist who was interested in science, you were fairly limited in what sort of work you could create. One could always draw about science, but if you really wanted to do anything with biology, you had to find a scientist with a lab who […]
Neuroscience, Memory and Art: Deborah Aschheim
by Sara Gevurtz Neuroscience, Memory and Art: a Discussion with Deborah Aschheim Deborah Aschheim is an artist who creates work that investigates memory, memory loss, and place. I had the opportunity recently to talk to her about her work, her experience dealing with the medical community, and what she is working on now. Currently, she […]
Growth Pattern
by Allison Kudlah In this work of art, a living natural system takes on the form of a manufactured pattern. Tobacco leaves are die-cut into a bilaterally symmetrical botanical abstraction and incubated in tiling square petri dishes that contain the nutrients necessary to promote new leaf growth. The premise for this work is the merging […]
Metadata and Digital Pedagogy: Surfacing Romantic…
by Kirstyn Leuner Metadata and Digital Pedagogy: Surfacing Romantic-era Book Histories with Captions (Excerpted from a presentation to be delivered at HASTAC V, U Michigan, Dec. 1-3, 2012, on a panel dedicated to investigating experimental ways to communicate 18th– and 19th-century book history metadata in TEI, pedagogy, and new textual digitization tools.) Due to their […]
Interview with Helen Homan Wu
Co-Curator of Navigating Darkness at the Tape, Berlin and founder of Opalnest multimedia production agency By Kristin Trethewey Located in an old warehouse near the Hamburger Bahnof, The Tape, functions as a venue for music and art exhibition in Berlin. Most recently the one-night show, Navigating Darkness curated by Helen Homan Wu and Mira O’Brien […]