EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE:
Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age
The National Centre for Contemporary Arts
(Kaliningrad Branch, Russia) presents a collection of documentaries about artworks recently created using the latest 21st Century technologies: ALife, robotics, bio and genetic engineering, etc. Assembled in 2008, this is today the largest video collection of contemporary techno-biological art in Russia or abroad. The collection was premiered in the framework of the IX MediaForum 2008 – one of the official programs of the XXX Moscow International Film Festival
(MIFF).
Participating artists:Paula Gaetano Adi
(AR) / James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau
(GB) / Brandon Ballengee
(US) / Laura Beloff
(FI) / BioKino Group: Tanya Visosevic and Guy Ben-Ary
(AU) / David Bowen
(US) / Adrian David Cheok
(SG) / Carlos Corpa and Ana Garcia-Serrano
(ES) / Critical Art Ensemble
(US) / Joe Davis
(US) / Marta de Menezes
(PT) / Louis-Philippe Demers
(CA) / Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen
(NL) / Tagny Duff
(CA) / Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha
(NL) / Julie Freeman
(GB) / George Gessert
(US) / Ken Goldberg
(US) / Isa Gordon
(US) / Andy Gracie
(GB) / Paul Granjon
(FR) / Mateusz Herczka
(SE) / Floris Kaayk
(NL) / Verena Kaminiarz
(CA/DE) / Leonel Moura
(PT) / Orlan
(FR) / Plancton Art Studio: Mauro Annunziato and Piero Pierucci
(IT) / Nicolas Reeves
(CA) / Julia Reodica
(US) / Ken Rinaldo
(US) / Marcel·li Antunez Roca
(ES) / Kathleen Rogers
(GB) / Philip Ross
(US) / SymbioticA Research Group
(AU) and The Potter Lab
(US) / Stelarc
(AU) / The Tissue Culture & Art Project
(TC&A): Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
(AU) / Paul Thomas
(AU) / Bill Vorn, Emma Howes and Jonathan Villeneuve
(CA) / Natasha Vita-More
(US) / Adam Zaretsky
(US)
CONTENTSDVD-ROM 1I. ARTIFICIAL BUT ACTUAL: Artificial LifeII. LIMITS OF MODELING: Evolutionary DesignIII. SHINING PROSTHESES: RoboticsDVD-ROM 2IV. BODY AS TECHNOLOGY: Techno-body ModificationV. MORE THAN A COPY, LESS THAN NOTHINGNESS: Bio and Genetic EngineeringVI. SEMI-LIVING: Tissue and Stem Cells EngineeringVII. POST SCRIPTUM: Re-Coding
