Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
גבריאל ברסיה-קולומבו: מכונת ממכר ה DNA שלי
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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קטנות או קופסאות גפרורים,
ביולוגיות בברוקלין, ניו יורק,
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
לגדל אי קולי שזוהרים בחושך
DNA extractions about a year ago,
ממיצויי הDNA של תות לפני שנה בערך,
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
באמת מרתק, בכלל שהוא כל כך יפה.
being a beautiful thing before,
we can do this strawberries,
אם אנחנו יכולים לעשות את זה עם תותים,
some friends, some artist friends,
עם חברים, כמה אומנים חברים,
you could actually see DNA.
out some supplies right now.
parties at my house on Friday nights
מוזרות בבית שלי בערבי שישי
do with your Friday nights,
think about a couple of things.
one time a friend came over
person more rare than the other one?"
האדם הזה יותר נדיר מההוא?"
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
שזה היה הסדר שמיציתי אותם.
what's going to be inside of them.
אתם לא בטוחים מה יהיה בתוכן.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
הקוויאר והארט-או-מטיק ביחד,
night drawing a vending machine,
לילה אחד מכונת ממכר,
coils of a vending machine.
to create an art installation
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
על הגישה הגוברת שלנו לביוטכנולוגיה"]
the DNA Vending Machine
vending machines in that location.
ממכר אמיתיות במיקום ההוא.
and a lot of my art projects
והרבה מפרוייקטי האומנות שלי
קניית קוויאר ממכונת ממכר,
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
שלכם להיות חלק ממכונת ממכר?
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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