Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Moj automat za prodaju DNK
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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i prodaje riblja jaja.
ili kutijama od šibica,
On nije automat za prodaju,
New York,
grow E. coli that glows in the dark
Escherichia coli koja svijetli u mraku
DNA extractions about a year ago,
otprilike godinu dana uzima DNK jagode,
fascinating, because it's so beautiful.
jer je tako lijep.
being a beautiful thing before,
toliko lijepa stvar,
u umjetničkoj zajednici,
Genspace-u poslije ovoga,
we can do this strawberries,
„Ako možemo raditi te jagode,
some friends, some artist friends,
nekim prijateljima, umjetnicima,
you could actually see DNA.
možemo stvarno vidjeti DNK.
out some supplies right now.
po neke zalihe odmah.
parties at my house on Friday nights
u mojoj kući petkom navečer
nekog smiješnog portreta.
iz njihovih reakcija.
do with your Friday nights,
za raditi petkom navečer,
think about a couple of things.
na moj zid na Facebook-u.
genetičku mrežu,
one time a friend came over
jednom je svratio prijatelj
person more rare than the other one?"
Je li ova osoba rijeđa od druge?"
razmišljao.
was the order that I extracted the DNA in.
kojim sam im uzeo DNK.
na sakupljanje igračaka,
s neobilježenim kutijama,
what's going to be inside of them.
biti u njima.
kako je to interesantno.
vending machine and the Art-o-mat all together,
automatu za kavijar, Art-o-matu i svemu,
night drawing a vending machine,
sam crtao automat za prodaju,
automata za prodaju,
ovu predivnu suradnju između
coils of a vending machine.
na automatu za prodaju.
to create an art installation
napraviti umjetničku instalaciju
about our increasing access to biotechnology."]
o našem rastućem pristupu biotehnologiji."]
za prodaju."]
iz ograničene serije."]
i rasvjetljava
the DNA Vending Machine
Tako je Automat za prodaju DNK
prve edicije od 100 komada,
ubaciti ga u metro,
ili Penn,
vending machines in that location.
automata za prodaju na toj lokaciji.
and a lot of my art projects
dosta drugih umjetničkih projekata
laserskog rezanja ili
iz automata za prodaju,
DNA to be part of the vending machine?
uzorak DNK da bude dijelom automata?
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.
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo | Speaker | TED.com