Here is a link to a discussion about Bio-Art that took place in early 2006 on the YASMIN network. Some key issues were raised about terminology, the exact forms that bio-art undertakes, and its relationship to other parts of society.

Towards the end, Roger Malina asks an interesting point question. “What vision do artists have for the future of life on our planet?” This is a very elegant way of asking how we envision our own evolutionary trajectory. The metaphor of adaptation to the environment is inprecise in tthe sense that we are constantly changing our environment to make it more hospitable for us to live and make babies. Though we do respond to our environment (particularly the biotic one), perhaps we ought think in terms of constructing our environment instead of adapting to it. Thus, we are encouraged to take responsibility for our role instead of transferring “fault” to an external source as if we are “just trying to adapt.”

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