Natasha Vita-More (USA) /
Biography
BONE DENSITY
Bone Density is a bioart project which grows, degenerates, and regenerates bone mass within the human biological system. Its biomedia is a living human body viewed as a dihybrid cross of bioart and performance art.
Bone Density addresses an historical premise concerning nature and questions the socially accepted, encoded biological aging process while suggesting a convergence of NBIC technologies for extreme life extension.
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: Bone Density (07:10), US, in English, color, stereo, DVD, 2008
PHOTO CREDITS: Natasha Vita-More, Bone Density, 2008, images courtesy the artist. © 2008 Photo by Max More. MRI images were produced at Austin Radiological Association, Austin.
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