LAUNCH: Artlink Magazine launch - Biotech Art Edition

SymbioticA presents the launch of the latest issue of the internationally distributed Australian Magazine Artlink. This issue focuses on the broad topic of Bio-art and features several WA-based artists and researchers.

Bio-art inhabits a realm within the art/science/medicine/technology matrix and this international issue examines a world where human beings are evolving in response to the rapid progress of biotechnology in medicine, genetics, and science.

The work of a biotech artist might include extensions to the body; the relationship of living to non-living; bio-couture (living ‘textiles’) the future of cyborgian systems; man-machine interactions and a great deal more.

Microbes and bacteria are one of the new frontiers in the understanding of life on earth, and have started to appear as the raw materials of art in various contexts.