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Difference and Sameness a Talk by Paul Vanouse
By Nurit Bar-Shai, Genspace
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Date and time
Friday, October 24, 2014 · 8 - 9:30pm EDT
Location
Genspace, The MEx Building 33 Flatbush Avenue 2th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Description
Difference and Sameness
A Talk by Paul Vanouse
When: Friday, Oct 24, 2012, 8pm
Doors open at 7:30pm
Where: Genspace, The MEx Building
33 Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11217
Talk: 2th Floor
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Image Caption: "Latent Figure Protocol" by Paul Vanouse, installation view, Photo by Axel Heise, 2011.
BioArtists Paul Vanouse has demystified while raised skepticism towards the authority of DNA fingerprinting in his pioneering work, hacking common lab Gel electrophoresis practices, while mischiefing his own designs to identify the misuse of scientific image representations as truth.
Nineteenth century sciences utilized highly visual techniques to differentiate, to liken, to single out and to categorize. These endeavors, such as anthropometry, fingerprinting, genetics and eugenics have strong resonance in contemporary bio-sciences and our current worldview.
In this lecture, Vanouse will discuss his artworks that use DNA as a medium alongside some of the intertwined scientific, political and legal histories that they interrogate.
Vanouse's key investigations have been to understand scientific images as cultural images, and to trace the social processes through which facts come to be accepted. Vanouse use scientific tools and techniques in his artwork to analyze DNA and utilize its results. For example, he use Gel Electrophoresis - a technique which is used as a common practice in biology labs as well as in forensics, to identify "DNA Fingerprinting" as an expressive medium of scientific image representation, or rather misrepresentations.
Nineteenth century sciences utilized highly visual techniques to differentiate, to liken, to single out and to categorize. These endeavors, such as anthropometry, fingerprinting, genetics and eugenics have strong resonance in contemporary bio-sciences and our current worldview.
In this lecture, Vanouse will discuss his artworks that use DNA as a medium alongside some of the intertwined scientific, political and legal histories that they interrogate.
Vanouse's key investigations have been to understand scientific images as cultural images, and to trace the social processes through which facts come to be accepted. Vanouse use scientific tools and techniques in his artwork to analyze DNA and utilize its results. For example, he use Gel Electrophoresis - a technique which is used as a common practice in biology labs as well as in forensics, to identify "DNA Fingerprinting" as an expressive medium of scientific image representation, or rather misrepresentations.
*Don't miss Paul Vanouse will give a three-day Workshop Thursday-Saturday, Oct 23-25!
Paul Vanouse is a Professor of Art at the University at Buffalo. He has been working in emerging media forms since 1990. Interdisciplinary and impassioned amateurism guide his art practice. His biological media experiments, and interactive installations have been exhibited in over 20 countries and widely across the US. Recent solo exhibitions include: Schering Foundation in Berlin (2011), Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana (2011), Muffathalle in Munich (2012), and Beall Center at UC Irvine, California (2013). Vanouse has been specifically concerned with forcing the arcane codes of scientific communication into a broader cultural language. In "The Relative Velocity Inscription Device" (2002), he literally races DNA from his Jamaican-American family members, in a DNA sequencing gel, in an installation/scientific experiment that explores the relationship between early 20th Century Eugenics and late 20th Century Human Genomics. The double entendre of race highlights the obsession with “genetic fitness” within these historical endeavors. Similarly, his recent projects, “Latent Figure Protocol” (2007), “Ocular Revision” (2010) and “Suspect Inversion Center” (2012) use molecular biology techniques to challenge “genome-hype” and to confront issues surrounding DNA fingerprinting.
More about Paul Vanouse here >> http://paulvanouse.com/