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Plastika [Totipotenta]

Plastika [Totipotenta]
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Author(s): Catherine Nyeki (Plurimedia artist,“plasticienne”, France)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 12
Source title: Metaplasticity in Virtual Worlds: Aesthetics and Semantic Concepts
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gianluca Mura (Politecnico di Milano University, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-077-8.ch014

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Abstract

Over the last ten years, my work has developed into a biotope abounding in diversity, a sort of virtual “vivarium” composed of interactive pieces, musical creations, drawings and writings in numerous sketchbooks, films and installations. A digital work of art is by definition non-uniqueness; it is potentially transformable at any moment. It is both fascinating and intriguing to have access to such a “plastic material”. My artistic research, which has flexible boundaries and echoes that of today’s nanosciences, genetics and cell biology, has gradually led me to improve certain personal concepts like the sensitive microscope, tactile laboratory, imaginary incubator, parallel botany, nano evolutions, visible and audible strata, multilingual semantic zoo, bud cell, virtual tissue, body graft… and the list goes on. My contribution’s title, Plastika [Totipotenta], is taken from my last solo exhibition in Paris that brought together recent works related to plasticity, questioning a sort of constantly evolving “modeling clay”-type thinking. This chapter is an invitation to question the various levels of plasticity concepts applied to some of my latest works that have been inspired by current biotechnology and my recent collaboration with a cell biologist.

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