Canaerial links – January 23rd

Artist Standing

Artist Standing

Links:

  • Interactive Storytelling Jewelry – Quirky Accessories That Tell a Story Each Time They’re Worn (GALLERY) – Interactive jewelry is a new concept found in the intriguing work of Allison Wells. Her pieces exercise elements of humor, play and interactivity.
  • Miniature oranges from modelling clay – How to make highly realistic cut and peeled oranges from modelling clay. You can apply the same techniques to other items.
  • Czech artist tells European Union to lighten up – Instead, he got together with his pals and made an eight-ton sculpture called “Entropia” that depicted Romania as a “Dracula theme park,” the Netherlands as being underwater “with only the tops of minarets sticking out,” Bulgaria “as a series of squat toilets,” Sweden as being “packed into an IKEA box” and so on.
  • David Cerny – Sculptures – Kits – On-the-sprue art. A rock star, Jesus, The Artist and others as plastic model kits.
  • Arts & Genomics :: VivoArts – This course will introduce students to issues and concepts relating to contemporary arts practices dealing with living biological systems (sometimes referred to as wet biology, art practice, Bioart, environmental art, body art, breeding practices). Emphasis is placed on developing critical thought, ethical issues and cross-disciplinary experimentation in art (art/science collaborations, art as research).
  • DIYbio – DIYbio is an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety. This will require mechanisms for amateurs to increase their knowledge and skills, access to a community of experts, the development of a code of ethics, responsible oversight, and leadership on issues that are unique to doing biology outside of traditional professional settings.
  • Dangerous Liaisons and other stories of transgenic pheasant embryology – we make money not art – If we are in the process of engaging in auto-evolution, then diversity, the inherent biological love of difference, implies that the human genome should be engineered with as wide a range of genre humans as there are art movements and swanky tastes in the world. Posthuman integrity is only guaranteed by an expanded aesthetics of anatomy, the more obscure the better… ! Let’s alter our identity as a species by birthing versions of ourselves into every permutative potential of fleshbound imagination.
  • who killed bambi? » Blog Archive » Julia Murakami – Anatomy of a fairy tale by Julia Murakami.

Image Credit: © David Cerny

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