Hacking the Good Days...
from IHT:
One of the strangest exhibits at the opening of “Design and the Elastic Mind,” the very strange show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that explores the territory where design meets science, was a teeny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. The “victimless leather” was kept alive in an incubator with nutrients, unsettlingly alive. Until recently, that is.
My usual response to outside-the-box ideas that blend arts and science by default, is in awe. But this feels too weird – (a) mouse + (b) living cells that keep on multiplying + (c) shapes like a coat but is living…..
/yike
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It’s creepy, but good art often is visceral.
It’s also pretty serious piece, in the technology used but great too. The ‘victimless’ tag is to be read as a commentary on one of life sciences unrealistic promise that we will have a victimless future.
They also created the victimless steak, which was a cultured frog steak the size of a dime.
cheers
Brian
‘cultured frog steak the size of a dime’?
perhaps you can do us a barcamp demo next time!