The Genomic Art Community pages are no longer being actively updated. Below is a selection of interesting sites and artists working with genomic issues.
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Information
Picturing DNA: by Betty Anne Kevles and Marilyn Nissenson This
book discusses many of the personal and political ramifications of the decodification
of the human genome
for the individual and society, and looks at how artists are reponding to
these issues.
The Human Genome:A collection of resources related to the gene sequence, its science, and its meaning... from Science Magazine.
Related Artists
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theoretician working with genetic imagery. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Philips Collection, P.S.1 Museum, the Stadkunst in Koln, and the Museum of Modern Art in Japan. In 2001, her work will be featured at the Getty Museum.
Aziz + Cucher have been collaborating on and exhibiting digital photography projects and sculpture since 1991. Their website has images of their work and interviews that verbally express their ideas.
Kevin Clarke received a BFA in sculpture from Cooper Union in New York City, where he was born. He subsequently spent four years in Switzerland and Germany working on conceptual photographic projects and exhibitions. Clarke has toured the world photographing night portraits titled AWE, before returning to his interest in genetics. FROM THE BLOOD OF THE POETS is a series of portraits derived from DNA sequences of artists and scientists in which a graphic DNA analysis is combined with Clarke's photographic meditations on identity, archetype and icon.
David Kremers is a conceptual artist specializing in biological subject matter.
Keith Cottingham lives and works as an artist in San Francisco. He studied at San Francisco State University, including special study with Lynn Hershman (Photography and Video), and at the Center for Computer Arts, San Francisco, and at the San Luis Obispo Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, California. Numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Keith Cottingham was awarded a Distinction by the Prix Ars Electronica jury for his entry Fictitious Portrait in the category Computer Graphics..
Eduardo Kac is an artist whose website offers an interesting perspective about genetic science through art.
