Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Můj prodejní automat na 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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prodává rybí vajíčka.
který prodává
destičkách nebo zápalkách,
Není prodejní automat,
v Brooklynu, v New Yorku,
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
E. coli, které svítí ve tmě
DNA extractions about a year ago,
DNA z jahody asi před rokem,
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
protože je krásná.
o DNA jako estetické věci,
being a beautiful thing before,
z umělecké komunity,
"Když to dokážeme s jahodami,
we can do this strawberries,
jsme už oba
some friends, some artist friends,
you could actually see DNA.
možné vidět DNA.
out some supplies right now.
sežeňme si nějaké dodávky.
parties at my house on Friday nights
páteční večírky u sebe doma,
legračního portrétu.
jak naložit s pátečním večerem,
do with your Friday nights,
think about a couple of things.
o pár dalších věcech.
jako moje zeď na Facebooku.
něco jako genetickou síť,
one time a friend came over
že přišel kamarád,
person more rare than the other one?"
je tahle osoba víc než jiná?"
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
jak jsme extrahovali DNA.
o sbírání hraček
what's going to be inside of them.
co v ní najdete.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
automat na kaviár, Artomat
night drawing a vending machine,
kreslil prodejní automat,
s mou DNA ležela vedle
coils of a vending machine.
rozhodl vytvořit uměleckou instalaci
to create an art installation
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
o lepším přístupu k biotechnologiím."]
a vynáší na světlo
s vlastnictvím DNA."]
the DNA Vending Machine
Takže automat na DNA
New Yorkských galeriích
nebo Penn Station,
vending machines in that location.
běžných prodejních automatů.
ostatních projektů
and a lot of my art projects
jako například řezání laserem nebo
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
do prodejního automatu?
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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