Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Minha Máquina de Vendas de DNA
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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em Los Angeles.
e vende ovos de peixe.
e não uma das máquinas.
no Brooklyn, Nova Iorque,
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
DNA extractions about a year ago,
há um ano atrás
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
sobre o DNA ser algo
being a beautiful thing before,
me juntei ao Genspace
we can do this strawberries,
frascos e chegando
de DNA humano.
some friends, some artist friends,
you could actually see DNA.
era possível ver o DNA.
out some supplies right now.
parties at my house on Friday nights
a fazer isso regularmente.
do with your Friday nights,
em pequenos frascos.
think about a couple of things.
one time a friend came over
person more rare than the other one?"
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
porque esta era a ordem
a coleta de brinquedos
esses brinquedos raros.
what's going to be inside of them.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
night drawing a vending machine,
uma máquina de vendas,
de uma máquina de vendas,
e as bobinas da máquina.
coils of a vending machine.
to create an art installation
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
é uma instalação de arte
acesso à biotecnologia."]
do espécime humano
da posse do DNA."]
the DNA Vending Machine
a Máquina de Vendas de DNA
galerias em Nova Iorque,
outra edição em breve.
de tê-la mais em metrôs,
vending machines in that location.
das atuais máquinas do local.
and a lot of my art projects
o corte a laser,
de uma máquina de vendas,
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
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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