Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
가브리엘 바르샤 콜롬보 (Gabriel Barcia-Colombo): 나의 DNA 자동판매기
Gabe Barcia-Colombo creates madcap art inspired both by Renaissance era curiosity cabinets and the modern-day digital chronicling of everyday life. Think: miniature people projected in objects and a DNA Vending Machine. Full bio
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그는 자판기가 아니라
지역 생물실험실로
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
대장균을 배양하는 방법이나
같은 것을 배우는 곳입니다.
DNA extractions about a year ago,
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
아름답기 때문입니다.
being a beautiful thing before,
관여하지는 않습니다.
we can do this strawberries,
"음, 딸기 DNA로 가능하다면
하고 물었습니다.
some friends, some artist friends,
you could actually see DNA.
믿지 못하더군요.
out some supplies right now.
준비해보자고 했습니다.
parties at my house on Friday nights
저희 집에서 파티를 했습니다.
do with your Friday nights,
think about a couple of things.
많이 비슷했습니다.
네트워크 같은 것을 만든 것입니다.
one time a friend came over
이렇게 물었습니다.
person more rare than the other one?"
이 사람이 더 대단한거야?"
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
그냥 번호를 붙인 것이었습니다.
생각이 떠올랐는데
what's going to be inside of them.
상자를 사는 것입니다.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
night drawing a vending machine,
자판기를 그리면서
coils of a vending machine.
to create an art installation
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
여러분은 DNA 샘플을
구입할 수 있습니다."]
한정판 사진과
DNA 소유권에 대한
the DNA Vending Machine
vending machines in that location.
바로 옆에 두고 싶습니다.
and a lot of my art projects
사는 것처럼 저렴해지면
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
DNA 샘플을 제공하시겠습니까?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo - Video sculptorGabe Barcia-Colombo creates madcap art inspired both by Renaissance era curiosity cabinets and the modern-day digital chronicling of everyday life. Think: miniature people projected in objects and a DNA Vending Machine.
Why you should listen
Gabe Barcia-Colombo is an American artist who creates installation pieces that both delight and point to the strangeness of our modern, digital world. His latest work is a DNA Vending Machine, which dispenses vials of DNA extracted from friends at dinner parties. He's also created video installations of "miniature people" encased inside ordinary objects like suitcases, blenders and more. His work comments on the act of leaving one's imprint for the next generation. Call it "artwork with consequences."
As he explains it: "While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance-era 'cabinets of curiosity'), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture. My video sculptures play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which I render visually by 'collecting' human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. I repurpose everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people."
Barcia-Colombo is an alumnus and instructor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Read about his latest work on CoolHunting and in his TED Fellows profile.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo | Speaker | TED.com