Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: A minha máquina de vendas de ADN
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 ovas de peixe
criações artísticas de diferentes artistas,
madeira ou em caixas de fósforos,
mas é um dos fundadores do Genspace,
Nova Iorque,
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
uma E. coli que brilha no escuro
DNA extractions about a year ago,
de ADN de morango há um ano,
este caminho bizarro
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
porque é muito bonito.
being a beautiful thing before,
ADN como uma coisa bonita,
e perguntei ao Oliver:
we can do this strawberries,
estávamos a sacudir frascos
para extração de ADN humano.
some friends, some artist friends,
you could actually see DNA.
era possível ver o ADN.
out some supplies right now.
extrair algumas amostras agora mesmo.
parties at my house on Friday nights
bizarros lá em casa às sextas à noite.
fazíamos a extração do ADN
estes retratos engraçados.
pelas reações delas.
do with your Friday nights,
fazer isto nas noites de sexta-feira,
do ADN dos meus amigos
think about a couple of things.
numa série de coisas
com o meu mural do Facebook.
eu criara uma rede genética,
one time a friend came over
um amigo meu foi lá a casa,
na minha mesa e disse:
person more rare than the other one?"
Essa pessoa é mais rara do que aquela?"
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
da extração do ADN.
nas coleções de brinquedos
com essas caixas surpresa,
what's going to be inside of them.
sem saber o que tem dentro.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
vende caviar e na Art-o-mat.
night drawing a vending machine,
uma máquina de vendas,
duma máquina de vendas.
estava ali ao pé,
duma máquina de vendas automática.
coils of a vending machine.
to create an art installation
é uma instalação artística
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
à biotecnologia]
pode comprar uma amostra
de vendas tradicional]
com um retrato colecionável
de edição limitada]
sobre a propriedade do ADN]
the DNA Vending Machine
galerias em Nova Iorque,
vending machines in that location.
que existem nesses locais.
and a lot of my art projects
dos meus projetos de arte
e o sequenciamento do ADN
ou a impressão 3D
numa máquina de vendas,
apareça numa máquina de vendas?
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
com uma amostra dessas?
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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