Bioremediality: Biomedia, imaging and shifting notions of liveliness across art and science

Biomedia and imaging practices have an important role to play in the representation, construction and generation of life and liveliness. Living Viral Tattoos is a research-creation project that reflects on tissue culture engineering practices of imaging cellular life in the laboratory. Various media art works created as part of the research conducted while culturing cells in the laboratory are referred to as "bioremediale images". The concept of bioremediality is proposed to reconsider biomedia and images as biosubjects in an era of global risk culture. The multi-dimensionality and liveliness of bioremediale images is situated as a (bio)remediation of images, materials, human and non-human entities across artistic and scientific processes. This dissertation proposes that an expanded range of literacy across the fields of media arts and life sciences is necessary to perceive and "read" images of life and liveliness

How to Make Living Viral Tattoos

Living Viral Tattoos (2008) is a research-creation project featuring the development of sculptures made in vitro. The creation of tattoos in the form of blue 'bruises' on pig skin and donated human skin was made using retroviruses, cell and tissue culture and immunohistochemical stains. This technical paper presents the protocols created and materials used in the project with the intention of contributing to an open source model for the development of wetware and biological art processes

Vigilantes : The Dream of Reason : Arte de Conducta : October 2004 - January 2005 : Tania Bruguera

"Vigilantes: The Dream of Reason is a small book reminiscent of a group of plane tickets in a travel folder that documents a series of liminal performances dealing with the relationship between ethics and desire. Produced in conjunction with the TIME ZONE residency curated by Tagny Duff, with internationally acclaimed Cuban artists Glenda León and Tania Bruguera" -- publisher's website

Digital Identity : Transforming Communities / Reinventing Ourselves

Publication produced for a virtual exhibition of works using digital media (CD-ROMs, Websites, videos, installations) produced mainly by Vancouver-based artists. Kidd explains that digital technology and digital art aid in rethinking personal identity and community, while Davison gives an overview of the exhibition, briefly describing each work. Includes visual documentation of each piece, with artists’ statements. List of related Websites. Biographical notes

Inversions : Interventions

This unbound issue of Inversions contains eight artists' projects related to the theme of intervention. Includes participatory works by Burgoyne and Marketou, a Lesbian Ranger's badge by Dempsey and Millan, and a fold-out curatorial project by Sommerman. Biographical notes. 1 bibl. ref

Le son dans l'art contemporain canadien = Sound in Contemporary Canadian Art

Stemming from a research residency at Artexte Information Centre, Gingras has assembled this anthology of texts by 18 artists and authors, creating a forum for a discussion of sound in the visual and media arts in Canada from 1980 to the present. Focusing on a specific work or artist, or while discussing their own practice through writing or in interview, the authors reflect on different experiences of listening and hearing, on sound objects and acoustic bodies, broadcasting devices, interdisciplinarity, and the role of silence. Gingras’ essays encompass the artists who inspired this project, as well as issues involved in the creating, dissemination, reception and documentation of works of sound. The accompanying audio CD contains various sound recordings by 16 artists. Gingras’ texts in French and English; other texts in the language of the author. Biographical notes on the authors and on the artists represented on the CD. Circa 75 bibl. ref