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MEART – THE SEMI-LIVING ARTIST

MEART is a geographically detached, bio-cybernetic project exploring aspects of creativity and artistry in the age of new biological technologies. It suggests future scenarios where humans will create/grow/manufacture intuitive and creative ‘thinking entities’ that could be intelligent and unpredictable beings. They may be created by humans for anthropocentric use, but as they will be creative and unpredictable, they might not necessarily stay the way they were originally intended.

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: MEART – The Semi-Living Artist (07:53), AU, in English, color, stereo, DVD, 2004
PHOTO CREDITS: SARG and The Potter Lab, MEART – The Semi-Living Artist, ongoing since 2000. © 2002-06 SARG and The Potter Lab. Photos by Phil Gamblen, Dr. Steve Potter.


GRACE STATE MACHINES 
THE TELEGARDEN
SEXED ROBOTS 
ALEXITIMIA —
AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC AGENT 

AUTOINDUCER_PH-1: 
CROSS CULTURAL CHEMISTRY 

EXOSKELETON / WALKING HEAD 
MEART — THE SEMI LIVING ARTIST 
Bill Vorn / Emma Howes / Jonathan Villeneuve
Ken Goldberg
Paul Granjon
 
Paula Gaetano Adi
 
Andy Gracie
Stelarc
SymbioticA Research Group / The Potter Lab

CONTENTS

DVD-ROM 1
I. ARTIFICIAL BUT ACTUAL: Artificial Life
II. LIMITS OF MODELING: Evolutionary Design
III. SHINING PROSTHESES: Robotics

DVD-ROM 2
IV. BODY AS TECHNOLOGY: Techno-body Modification
V. MORE THAN A COPY, LESS THAN NOTHINGNESS: Bio and Genetic Engineering
VI. SEMI-LIVING: Tissue and Stem Cells Engineering
VII. POST SCRIPTUM: Re-Coding