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Niva Patel :: Projects and Ideas |
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Design by Sequence “Culture
and Identity” |
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| Genetic Art Proposal "Title" |
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| Some of my links on the topic of genetic arts:
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| I found this next site to
be very fake. The basis of this site was that you could buy artwork
of your own DNA. The company sends you a kit, you send back a sample
of your DNA, and then they decode the DNA and create artwork. The
artwork looks like a colorful, printed version of gel electrophoresis.
Many people who bought this artwork said that they liked it because
it expressed who they were but are our genes everything? The artwork
just seemed like something that would be “cool” to have
in your living room, not a piece of art. Keyword: DNA Art Cite: Unknown. “Perfect DNA.” 2002. 15 April 2003. http://www.jellyflaps.com/perfectdna/products.htm |
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I loved this site!!!
This was by far my favorite site. I had seen one piece of artwork
by Daniel Lee before but this site included so many interesting
pieces. I like his artwork because it is very realistic and eye-catching.
When I first looked at the artwork I could tell that soething was
different but it took me awhile to realize that these portraits
were of hybrization between humans and animals. I think that this
artwork has a great shock value and an interesting twist to genetics. |
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This site showed a piece bye
Bill Scanga titled, “Eighteen Frogs with Pants.” The
artwork was of 18 frogs arranged on shelves according to the color
of the knitted pants that they were wearing. This piece was very
simple yet it held a lot of meaning. I think that the artist was
trying to show that humans have the instinctive nature that forces
them to dominate and “take care” of all other animals.
In this piece the pants symbolize how a mother would put a jacket
on her child before the child steps out into the cold. I think that
this piece also shows how even though we are dominating nature that
maybe we are doing a good thing. Just like a mother is trying to
prevent a child from getting a cold, maybe humans are trying to
improve nature. |
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| The artwork that I looked
at on this site was a piece by Edmund Palao. The piece was untitled.
This piece was of pairs of shoes on shelves. On the side of a photograph
of this piece was a summary of the meaning of the artwork. The artist
was trying to show that in the future if everyone becomes clones we
will all be wearing the same sized shoes. I though that this was not
portrayed in the artwork because nowhere in the artwork does it show
that there was something about cloning. Most of the pieces about cloning
show some kind of copying of people. I don’t think that the
message was portrayed very well because shoes on a shelf could mean
anything; it could mean society’s expectation of order. I think
that the emotions about cloning were not expressed very well and that
is the most important part of art. Keyword: Art about Cloning Cite: Palao, Edmund. “Multiplicity Gallery.” The Wellcome Trust. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/old/MISexhTWOmulGAL24.html |
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