Pig Wings Project

September 28, 2004 3:43 AM

The Pig Wings Project: "Rhetoric surrounding the development of new biological technologies make us wonder if pigs could fly one day. If pigs could fly, what shape their wings will take? The Pig Wings Project presents the first use of living pig tissue to construct and grow winged shape Semi-Living Objects."
posted by taz (2 comments total)

Presented by the "Tissue Culture & Art Project" and brought to you by the same people who have created "Fish & Chips" - assemblies of fish neurons grown over silicon chips as wetware, software, and visual and audio art output devices. Related Time Magazine article here.
posted by taz at 3:46 AM on September 28, 2004

Hey pork ribs and wings in one package; now that's progress!
posted by DrDoberman at 4:49 AM on September 28, 2004