Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
Gabriel Barcia Colombo: Min DNA-salgsautomat
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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grow E. coli that glows in the dark
dyrke frem E.coli som lyser i mørket
DNA extractions about a year ago,
fra jordbær for omtrent et år siden,
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
fordi det er så vakkert.
being a beautiful thing before,
som en vakker ting før,
we can do this strawberries,
vi kan gjøre det på disse på jordbærene,
og kom opp med
some friends, some artist friends,
noen venner, noen kunstnervenner,
you could actually see DNA.
man faktisk kunne se DNA.
out some supplies right now.
og skaffe noen materialer akkurat nå.
parties at my house on Friday nights
selskapene hos meg på fredagskvelder
do with your Friday nights,
gjøre på en fredagskveld,
think about a couple of things.
et par ting.
tidslinjen min på Facebook,
genetisk nettverk,
one time a friend came over
en venn kom til meg,
person more rare than the other one?"
personen sjeldnere enn den andre?"
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
rekkefølgen vi hadde tatt ut DNAet i.
på det å samle leketøy,
blanke leketøyesker,
forskjellige sjeldne leker.
what's going to be inside of them.
sikker på hva som skjuler seg inni,
sjeldne leker.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
automaten, og kunst-o-maten i sammenheng.
night drawing a vending machine,
og tegnet en salgsautomat en natt,
av en salgsautomat,
kombinasjonen mellom
coils of a vending machine.
på en salgsautomat.
to create an art installation
meg for å lage en kunstinstallasjon
(The DNA Vending Machine)
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
som omhandler å øke tilgangen på bioteknologi.")
salgsautomat")
samlebart...
eierskapet knyttet til DNA.")
the DNA Vending Machine
inn på en mer sentral scene,
vending machines in that location.
salgsautomatene i disse områdene.
and a lot of my art projects
av mine andre kunstprosjekter
fra en salgsautomat;
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
av ditt DNA til en salgsautomat?"
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.
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