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Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics
On Monday I posted a link to academic material examining the impact of genomics on contemporary medicine. Today, I'd like to offer a site exploring the artistic implications of living in the genomic age.
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics is a major traveling exhibition that showcases powerful new artwork created in direct response to recent developments in human genomics. This research is having an enormous impact on artistic practice, providing new tools, processes, materials, and issues for consideration. Organized by the Henry Art Gallery, Gene(sis) seeks to bridge art and science by elucidating technical advances for a lay audience and examining ethical issues raised by genomic research.
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The exhibition is organized into four general themes:
SEQUENCE: work that explores the rhetoric and media representations of genomics
BOUNDARY: artists' investigations of the now permeable boundaries between species
SPECIMEN: work that engages questions of DNA ownership, personal privacy and the management of genetic information
SUBJECT: artists' reimaginings of individual subjectivity, family and human "nature" in the wake of recent genomic developments
Nicely designed, easy to navigate site that's dense with both visual and text-based material. Offerings represent a wide range of conceptual styles, preoccupations and methods. Actual exhibit is making its way to Berkeley, Minneapolis and Evanston, IL starting in August of 2003. It closed in Seattle last August.