Maggic Bioart?

April 28, 2016 1:25 PM

"Artist-biologist, jungle-dweller, critical-learner, xeno-feminist, optimistic-fatalist, & proud-amateur, wavering between observer and doer, using documentary video to embed myself in the worlds I'm interested in exploring. If you are a biologist, artist, "bio-artist," DIY-biologist, hobbyist, bio-hacker, bio-punk, xeno-punk, and/or citizen scientist, please contact me"

Notable Projects:
A TRANSGENIC CHICKEN COMMERCIAL FOR WOMEN

OPEN SOURCE ESTROGEN

CELL-FREE ESTROGEN BIOSENSOR

posted by Annika Cicada (6 comments total)

Wow, this is really all over the place, isn't it? One gets the impression that the artist-biologist's "deal" isn't adequately captured by any of the things mentioned (xeno-feminist? proud-amateur? hyphen-enthusiast, at the very least) but can be more helpfully characterized as liminality itself, in-between-ness. It's interesting, sort of, but what an exhausting and self-aggrandizing wall of text to get through, and to come out on the other side being somehow less sure of who this person is than if one had simply read "artist-biologist."
posted by clockzero at 2:32 PM on April 28, 2016 [1 favorite]

2. An agrobacterium mediated transformation in tobacco plants that alters the plant’s natural sterol production pathway

Spoiler: This is really difficult.
posted by maryr at 2:33 PM on April 28, 2016

vicarious anxiety on behalf of one putting oneself out there on the internet in such a shamelessly unironic way
posted by radicalawyer at 2:35 PM on April 28, 2016 [3 favorites]

It's all along the lines of this:
http://www.laboriacuboniks.net (epilepsy warning)

This whole genre of art has pretty much permanently bent my mind into some strange and wonderful places.
posted by Annika Cicada at 2:57 PM on April 28, 2016 [2 favorites]

she's half of diysect.com (according to this) which might help explain how she got to media lab.
posted by andrewcooke at 5:46 PM on April 28, 2016

A cyberpunk protagonist in the flesh! A little soon, because it should take the tech a few more generations, but we'll need people like her to hack our future symbiotes.
posted by StrikeTheViol at 5:54 PM on April 28, 2016 [1 favorite]