Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
غبريئيل بارسيا كولومبو: آلة بيع الحمض النووي الخاص بي
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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أو علب كبريت
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
البكتيريا المعوية التي تضيء في الظلام
DNA extractions about a year ago,
من عمليات استخراج الحمض النووي منذ سنة،
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
لأنه جميل جدًا.
أن يكون الحمض النووي شيئًا جميلًا،
being a beautiful thing before,
لا سيما في الأوساط الفنية،
"لواستطعنا فعل هذا مع الفراولة، هل
we can do this strawberries,
نفكر في الأمر بجدية ونأتي
هو ما يبدو عليه الحمض النووي الخاص بي.
some friends, some artist friends,
بعض الأصدقاء الفنانين،
you could actually see DNA.
أن بإمكانهم أن يروا الحمض النووي.
out some supplies right now.
دعونا نخرج بعض التجهيزات الآن.
parties at my house on Friday nights
في منزلي في ليالي الجمعة
من الصور المضحكة كذلك.
do with your Friday nights,
في ليالي الجمعة،
في قوارير صغيرة
think about a couple of things.
الفيسبوك الخاص بي.
one time a friend came over
أتى ذات مرّة
"حسنًا،
person more rare than the other one?"
أكثر ندرة من الآخر؟"
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
استخرجت فيه تلك الحموض.
ألعاب الصندوق الأعمى
ولست متأكد ما سيكون في داخلها
what's going to be inside of them.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
وآلة آرت أو مات معًا،
night drawing a vending machine,
coils of a vending machine.
to create an art installation
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
وصولنا المتزايد لعلم التكنولوجيا الحيوية")
البشري من آلة بيع تقليدية بسعر معقول"
the DNA Vending Machine
في عدة صالات عرض في نيويورك
vending machines in that location.
الموجودة في الموقع.
and a lot of my art projects
القطع بالليزر
أو شراء كافيار من آلة البيع.
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
في آلة البيع؟
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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